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Related: About this forumMedia Bias Exposed: Romney Gets 3 Times More Positive Coverage than Obama
A new study from Pews Project For Excellence In Journalism has uncovered a serious case of media bias, as Mitt Romney is getting three times more positive media coverage than President Obama.
The new Pew study found that after Mitt Romney won the Michigan primary his coverage went from a 37%-35% positive/negative split to an overwhelmingly positive 47%-25%. Before Michigan, the coverage of Romney had been mixed. After his New Hampshire win, the Republican enjoyed positive coverage, 45%-33%, but his loss in South Carolina got him a negative coverage week 28%-40%. Romney hit his low point from February 13-19. His coverage was overwhelmingly negative that week, 51%-23%.
After Michigan, Romneys positive coverage jumped by 17 points to 45% and negative coverage fell by 5 points to 28%. As the Obama campaign turned their attention to Romney in the first week of April, Romneys coverage stayed positive but mixed, 35%-33% with 32% neutral.
However, no candidate has received the amount of constant media negativity that President Obama has endured. President Obama has not had a single week in 2012 when positive coverage has outnumbered the negative. Obamas negative coverage was driven by the medias willingness to parrot Republican talking points, and the Supreme Court challenge to health care reform.
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Full article and charts here: http://www.politicususa.com/media-bias-exposed-romney-gets-3-times-more-positive-coverage-than-obama.html
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Media Bias Exposed: Romney Gets 3 Times More Positive Coverage than Obama (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Apr 2012
OP
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)1. Comes as no surprise to me. Was the same in 08 with McCain
Media has an agenda. Thanks for the article and link.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)2. Mittens is the chosen one of the powers that control things.
He is one of them.
Also, talk radio is 85% right wing, including most "shock jocks".
Siwsan
(26,290 posts)3. What the heck positive do they find to report on Willard??
Seriously - the man is a walking entitled liar and verbal gaff machine.
Alexander
(15,318 posts)4. In the media, you're only as liberal as your company's CEO.
In other words, not very, and then only as a business decision.