Tag: Media Coverage

And The Survey Says

The two most overworked words in this election are….change and polls.

First, Obama was the agent of change for Washington, now McCain is that agent. But no one in the mainstream media is asking how a Senator with 26 years of experience in Washington will precisely bring about any change. Personally, I believe that no matter who wins the 08 election there will be change…..but it will be attitudinal, not physical change.

Let us move on to the polls. There are daily tracking polls, why? These are nothing more than a daily snapshot of what is actually happening in the campaigns. They serve only one purpose….they are used to drive the media’s daily shows. My favorite comment in the MSM is that they do not want to over analyze the polls, and then they go about over analyzing the polls. I guess that is what you do when “real” issues are not that important.

The media is jerking off with the introduction of Palin into the mix. But no where do they call her to task on immigration or trade or social security, they allow her and McCain to keep up the obfuscation of the issues. The media has allowed this election to become more about tactics than issues.

More smoke being blown up the butts of voters.

Is Media Biased Toward Obama?

The news media has devoted significantly more attention to the Democrat since Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign and left a two-person contest for the presidency between Obama and Republican John McCain, according to research conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

News executives say there are reasons for the disparity, such as the continuing story about whether Clinton and Obama’s supporters can reconcile. They even partly blame McCain. By criticizing Obama for a lack of foreign policy experience, McCain raised the stakes for Obama’s trip, “especially if he winds up going in to two war zones,” said Paul Friedman, senior vice president of CBS News.

McCain’s group have been whining about this since they both became the presumptive nominees.  McCain says he cannot catch a break and that Obama is getting all the press.  A study done by George Mason University confirms that Obama is getting more press coverage, but that is not as good news as one would expect.  It seems that the coverage of Obama is in the neighborhood of 70% negative.  Yes, he, Pbama, is getting the press, but only about 15% of it is positive coverage.

Will the McCain people stop whining and move on now?  Maybe they should consider that the darling of the 2000 elections, McCain, would get more coverage if he had more to say than “the surge is working” or that the candidate is flipping and flopping just as badly as Obama.  Or maybe the campaign could cease the “poor pitiful me” angle.  They are starting to look desperate and pathetic.