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Media Favored Romney Over Obama During GOP Primaries: Study
by Howard Kurtz Apr 23, 2012 12:01 AM EDT
Forget liberal bias. A new study reveals that the press covered Romney twice as favorably as Obama during the primariesand declared the GOP race over weeks ago, reports Howard Kurtz. Plus, Peter Beinart on the Democrats anti-Mormom problem.
During the bruising Republican primaries, there was one candidate whose coverage was more relentlessly negative than the rest. In fact, he did not enjoy a single week where positive treatment by the media outweighed the negative.
His name is Barack Obama.
That is among the findings of a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a Washington nonprofit that examined 52 key newspaper, television, radio, and Web outlets.
Day in and day out, he was criticized by the entire Republican field on a variety of policies, Mark Jurkowitz, the groups associate director, says of Obama. And he was inextricably linked to events that generated negative coverageincluding rising gas prices, the ailing economy, and the renewed debate over his health care law.
More:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/23/media-favored-romney-over-obama-during-gop-primaries-study.html
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)It's still going on - by the way
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)still_one
(92,394 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)all you have to do is ask them why * was elected pResident twice, and why we do not still have a Democratic majority in Congress.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Gore was CRUCIFIED during 2000 all that Bush is a guy you want to have a beer with got us this dumb motherfucker in the White HOUSE and a senseless war in Iraq and a bad economy
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)They've never really been kind to Obama, instead allowing Teabagger/Rethug hate rhetoric to go unchallenged. Every Sunday morning, conservatives dominate the talk shows. This has been going on for many years.
And for those who still believe that Obama was coddled during the 2007-2008 primaries and GE, I call bullshit! How many fucking months did the Corporate Media spend on Muslim rumors, pastorgate, China-made flag lapel pins, William Ayers, and Sarah Palin? How many? Obama was NEVER liked by the media; even Carville admitted that Obama has no friends in the media like when Clinton did.
That the media was and is liberal is a straight up lie that has been repeated over and over again for the last 40 years. When I hear fellow liberals roll with that bullshit, it makes me ill!