Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Media Bias: Washington Post Admits It

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"The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts"

"The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32, and Obama got the editorial board's endorsement. The Post has several conservative columnists, but not all were gung-ho about McCain."

9 comments:

MsAnthrope said...

How many people read the Washington Post?

Obama: 64,385,746 popular votes

McCain: 56,712,551 popular votes

Doubt if that could be a deciding factor.

Anonymous said...

Good point, MsAnthrope! Seems the only people left are those on my teevee. And the NYTimes just wrapped up another scandal of "made-up stories" which makes you wonder why anyone would quote them!

It was those 8 million millionaires who tipped the election to obama! It certainly won't be the gays in 2012, I promise that.

Common Sense Joe said...

The Post and Times articles are distributed across the nation. Most the of the MSM network news reads those papers.

MsAnthrope said...

The biggest reason the Republicans lost the election was that the majority of people got tired of the Republicans pissing down our backs and then trying to tell us it was raining.

Common Sense Joe said...

It doesn't help when the opposition is outspending you 3 to 1 plus having all the media against you.

MsAnthrope said...

So the presidency is up for sale huh? That explains why Bush got to be president twice.

Common Sense Joe said...

If only one side gets media play, then we no longer have a democracy. Throughout the Bush administration, the left received lots of media attention. Check to see how much media attention the right gets the next four years.

Anonymous said...

You must be an avid reader of the "The Hedgehog Blog".

Common Sense Joe said...

Never heard of it.