MEDIA BIAS

[Sebass1271]

Did you see the results this morning reporting media has been more favorable to OBama than to McPOW? I can't quite comprehend these results. Who did this research? I am I missing something here?
Maybe the media has been "positive" towards Obama because in the end he is the one that has been running a positive campaign as opposed to MccAin?

Any thoughts?

[Poiuyt]

1. If the media has been more favorable to Obama, it's because he's a more favorable candidate

News shouldn't be fair and balanced. It should be fair and accurate.

[ananda]

2. What media?

CNN is clearly partial to McCain all day and night.

MSNBC is very partial to McCain during the day,
but then goes progressive at night with Maddow
and Olberman.

[chelsea0011]

3. So everytime Wright and Ayers have been mentioned it has all been positive?

I would like to know what is considered positive. Was the front page above to fold Ayers story by the librul NYT considered a positive story because it stated Obama's association with Ayers was minimal at best? And all the "can a black man be President" were all positive stories?

[KharmaTrain]

4. Define "Favorable"...

I love those studies as usually you can find a political agenda behind them. "Favorable" is a very subjective word...it can be gleamed from most news stories, even ones that overall are critical of the candidate. By it's volume, media coverage can easily be cherry-picked to show a bias and generally these type of surveys end up negating each other and used by the media to prove there is no bias.

Coverage is what you want it to be. We are now in an age where information comes from many places and the media's domination on the flow if information has greatly diminished...they've become echo chambers rather than reporters these days.

[StopTheNeoCons]

5. Simply an indication of who ran a more positive campaign, focusing on the issues important to a majo

Simply an indication of who ran a more positive campaign, focusing on the issues important to a majority of Americans. When you run a nasty, dirty campaign as McCain/Palin has done, you get the 31% that you deserve, and it's showing with Independents and moderate Republicans going with Obama,

[Fuzz]

6. It depends on what they are looking at to be honest.

Number of R and D guests, topics being covered with obvious political implications and how they cover them, etc.

Seems like this study was just about when Obama or McCain were talked about directly. I was looking for the methodology for the study, but couldn't find it.

[seabeyond]

7. if mccain fucks up time and agian, and obama doesnt, of course media is going to be more

favorable to obama than mccain, but that is hardly mccain or obamas fault. i dont know how they can weigh this to see the reality how they promote false negative of obama and how often what htey promote a true negative with mccain

to just weigh negative (mccain fuck up) and obama positive (ahead in the polls) both real news as siding.