Quoted from the LA Times:
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.
You read it right: tougher on the Democrat.
During the evening news, the majority of statements from reporters and anchors on all three networks are neutral, the center found. And when network news people ventured opinions in recent weeks, 28% of the statements were positive for Obama and 72% negative.
Network reporting also tilted against McCain, but far less dramatically, with 43% of the statements positive and 57% negative, according to the Washington-based media center.
Nothing about this surprises me. The media has taken a pass each time McCain has jumped the tracks on the Straight Talk Express. Confusing Sunni with Shiite? The Iraq-Pakistan border? The surge causing the Anbar Awakening? His shifting position on a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq?
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