Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: Stoneburner
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: Stoneburner
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What is interesting is that despite his pathetic campaign he is still barely losing to Obama who has best media coverage a candidate has ever gotten.
Imagine if the media wasn't in love with Obama or McCain got his act together.
As much as we talk about this campaign being Obama's to lose we have to realize that Obama is a VERY vulnerable candidate. If McCain could get his act together and go after Obama on those vulnerabilities he could make it a really tight race and have a good chance to win in a very Democratic year.
72 percent of Obama's coverage since he secured the nomination has been NEGATIVE.
http://www.latimes.com/news/na...8jul27,0,6802141.story
The center reviews and "codes" statements on the evening news as positive or negative toward the candidates. For example, when NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell said in June that Obama "has problems" with white men and suburban women, the media center deemed that a negative.
^ That's a negative about Obama?
This just serves as reminder that many so-called studies are BS.
Fern
Just shows how little attention you have been paying. For example, stating obama has a problem with a particular group can be negative especially when it is UNTRUE and especially when actual problems in the other campaign are not addressed.
Think about it this way: Why hasn't the bottom fallen out of the mccain campaign already? You have CBS editing his gaffes out, very few sources are reporting the problems he's having with his own state, and even fewer are excoriating him for his flipflops. On the other hand, obama was hammered incessantly after he abandoned public financing.
And GENX87, you knew it was bunk before you read it? You ever think maybe you have a bias against common sense? That was an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Yeah, I think it shows how little attention somebody's been paying, but it ain't me.
Did you notice this too?
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.
Too bad they didn't factor in MSNBC and CNN.
Did you notice this?
By the way, Lichter's group also surveys the first half-hour of "Special Report With Brit Hume," Fox News' answer to the network evening news shows.
The review found that, since the start of the general-election campaign, "Special Report" offered more opinions on the two candidates than all three networks combined.
No surprise there. Previous research has shown Fox News to be opinion-heavy.
"Special Report" was tougher than the networks on Obama -- with 79% of the statements about the Democrat negative, compared with 61% negative on McCain.
Special Report doesn't offer opinions until the last 20 minutes, and those 20 minutes had more opinion than all three combined?
Hardly anyone watches ABC, NBC or CBS for news anyway; all the action is on cable.
Notice how Special Report is said to be "tougher" on Obama?
79% vs 61%. So the Fox News Channel - the "Official" Republican TV channel according to AT P&N - has a spread of 18% against Obama?
CBS, NBC and ABC had a spread, as calculated by these boobs, of 21%. Wouldn't that be being "tougher".
Look, this "study" is garbage. Even the Dems (read some of Susan Etheridge's recent opinion pieces) ain't buying it.
Hehe, I'm sure Chris Matthews comment about about Obama "sending a shiver up his leg" would count as a negative according to these guys - shivers are uncomfortable. OMG, let's not even think about reports of people fainting at Obama rallys, that must be a negative X2 - fainting is not good for you and is another unpleaseant experience. :roll:
Fern