Biased AP story (quoting Rush Limbaugh!) asks if media is "playing fair" in campaign coverage

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIHbNjxgyh98CZcVL1vYRM6JBVNQD9220LG85




More at the link, much more interesting stuff than I can quote.

This is more AP bias, some of their most blatant editorializing-as-news so far, and now they're taking aim at other news organizations.

I'm checking PEJ's website

http://journalism.org/

and don't see any new article on the media supposedly not playing fair, so it looks as though Bauder contacted PEJ's director and pushed him until they got one comment that the greater number of stories on Obama is "probably not fair to McCain."

This AP story left out all mention of PEJ's article on how "Obama Rumors Get More Press Coverage" -- a situation where the greater number of stories isn't in Obama's favor.

Bauder quotes not only Rush Limbaugh (yes, just the "authority" to turn to for discussing whether the media is fair) but Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., with his comment about Obama's trip being just a "publicity stunt."

Paragraphs near the end of the AP article dismiss Obama as an "attractive commodity" for the media and suggest that with the "attention gap" supposedly being created, "it could leave the nation electing a president while the media is paying attention to someone else." Translation: McCain is the only real candidate, the one who'll be elected, while the press revels in an "infatuation" with this "attractive commodity" offered by the Democrats.

The final paragraphs have comments from the president of NBC News, saying it's funny this is now an issue when the media has been accused of being too cozy with McCain.

But overall, this is a hit piece, incredibly biased against Obama.

Yes, the media is terribly biased... They *really* show it in their music coverage.

A search request in the Associated Press archives for "Britney Spears" returns 1580 hits.

A search request in those same archives for "Eric Clapton" returns only 2 hits.

The AP is clearly saying that Britney Spears is 790 times better of a musician than Eric Clapton.

Those pop-leaning, musically biased scumbags.

....though yours is a paragraph or two more thorough than what I'd contemplated, since I'm still pissed about what an obvious con job the piece is.

Basically, Repubbies whining about how little there is worth covering, McCain-wise, especially this week.

So these snarky little hatchet jobs are the best they can do...

I haven't been terribly fond of KO in recent months because of his Clinton-bashing, but I would like to see him do a special commentary on the bias in the AP's complaint about bias. Or maybe he could just name them "worst people in the world."

What helped me get over it was the realization that his program only lasts an hour, so naturally he was forced to gloss over a few things.

Amazing how the gop is so quick to utter that phrase when some little person's down on his luck. But let one conservative get his undies in a bunch they're quick as hell to start whining about fairness. They just love to play the victim.

They need to cover his gaffs and flip-flops, and expose his abysmal stupidity for the whole world to see.

There are PLENTY of good stories they can cover about McCain. They just don't want the public to see who McCain really is, so they keep him OUT of the limelight in order to protect him from himself.

All of the articles focus on the number of minutes of exposure the candidates got.

NONE of the articles talk about the tenor of the coverage. How many months of coverage has the media spent on Obama's former pastor? And what miniscule percentage of the coverage on John McCain doesn't focus on the story that he's a "straight-talkin' America lovin' maverick"?

This is just more bullshit piled on top of bullshit from the fucking shitty American piece of crap media. The whole lot of them should be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo.

And he's very adept at handling the press and getting his way. Last week, after McCain's joke about shipping cigarettes to Iran to give them cancer, I looked closely at the video. Who was there? Karen Tumulty of Time, laughing heartily as she wrote on her note pad. Just like Bush's WMD (are they under here?) jokes. They get the guffaws from the press corps while we get ridiculous coverage.

and not about McCain. They say McCain is a known quantity and Obama is an unknown.

They have been trying to put the spotlight on Obama and paint him as "exotic."

When they see that it's failing they say that there is bias in favor of Obama because all the media stories are about him even though the majority are negative.

The media tends to show "concern" for Obama and McCain gets a free ride. Just imagine if Obama had made some of the gaffes McCain has recently.