AP and Republicans whine about not getting fair coverage!!

"Grumpy McGoo doesn't get the same coverage for his sleepy town halls, it's not fair! The liberal media!"

Too bad Fox talks about Obama A LOT more than McCain too, just like the AP, just like ABC News.. all conservative outlets.

Obama has to watch it though...those conservative news outlets are itching to make this election a referendum on Obama instead of Bush and are hoping to get a gaffe or make a phony controversy.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080720/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_obama_s_trip


Television news' royalty will fly in to meet Barack Obama during this week's overseas trip: CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday.

The anchor blessing defines the trip as a Major Event and — much like a "Saturday Night Live" skit in February that depicted a press corps fawning over Obama — raises anew the issue of fairness in campaign coverage.

The news media have devoted significantly more attention to the Democrat since Hillary Rodham 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's 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 into two war zones," said Paul Friedman, senior vice president of CBS News.

Obama has traveled to Afghanistan and is expected to go to Iraq. He is also scheduled to visit Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England. Network anchors stayed home during McCain's recent foreign excursions.

"The question really needs to be posed: Is this type of coverage fair?" said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. "This is nothing but a political stunt."

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh said none of this should be a surprise.

"My prediction is that the coverage of Obama on this trip will be oriented toward countering the notion he has no idea what he is talking about on foreign policy and defense issues and instead will prop him up as a qualified statesman," Limbaugh told The Associated Press. "McCain, on the other hand, is a known quantity on these issues and his position does not excite nor fit the mainstream media's narrative on Iraq and Afghanistan, so they simply ignore it and him."

Along with newsworthiness, the question of fairness was discussed within ABC News before it was agreed Gibson would travel, said Jon Banner, executive producer of "World News." Also, if one network anchor decides to hit the road for a big event, chances are the others will follow.

"We have already been in discussions with the McCain campaign to try to afford them the same or a similar opportunity," Banner said. "We have gone to great lengths to be fair and provide equal time to both campaigns."

Shortly after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, Gibson flew to Miami for a McCain interview, he said.

For each of the weeks between June 9 and July 13, Obama had a much more significant media presence. The Project for Excellence in Journalism evaluates more than 300 political stories each week in newspapers, magazines and television to measure whether each candidate is talked about in more than 25 percent of the stories.

Every week, Obama played an important role in more than two-thirds of the stories. For July 7-13, for example, Obama was a significant presence in 77 percent of the stories, while McCain was in 48 percent, the PEJ said.

McCain and the Pubs are outdated and tired...its the same old thing...

Lie Cheat Steal to get elected then...vote self interest and not for the WHOLE...

People sense the Sincerity, the Hope, the Sharing/Caring Personality that many yearn for in our Leaders.....

McLame is Old Hat

Obama is new approaches and new Vision....in Leadership...Brains is better than Beer.

Actual fair coverage would quickly result in blatant violence against, and old fashioned tarring and feathering of many republicans.

Let's all bust out of the nursing homes tomorrow at 1 PM!
I'll be the old woman, wearing the homemade t-shirt that says:

"John McCain called his wife a cunt".

So more coverage would have damaged his campaign anyway.

So fuck off, mclame lovers.

His reversals, lies, insane rantings, threats, gaffes, and "blue screens" should be will documented.

well there's two things funny. First is the media is crying about its own coverage. Welcome to bizzaro world.

And second if they gave ,csame the same amount of coverage they gave obama this race would be over. They purposely ducked covering mcsame last week as much as they can as he was one huge gaffe after another. Pretty much a normal week for him but they now damn well if they cover it this thing is over.

Should be a fun few months. Constant attempts to tear obama down followed by a constant stream of whining about all the coverage he gets. And the funniest thing is we will be bitching about their coverage right along with them.