Posted on 10/29/2008 5:10:25 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Network coverage of Palin has moved beyond criticism to outright ridicule. Strikingly, all three networks have repeatedly aired clips of Palin being parodied by a comedy show, NBC’s Saturday Night Live, leading to concerns that many Americans are confusing the real Palin with SNL’s figure of fun. When have comic impressions of a political figure ever qualified as hard news?
CMI reviewed network news coverage of Palin for the two weeks beginning September 29 and ending October 12, the period before and after the October 2 vice-presidential debate. We found that ABC, NBC and CBS have been stridently critical of Palin. Before the debate, the networks characterized her as a dunce whose shortcomings were dividing the GOP. After Palin laid to rest concerns about her competence by performing well in the debate, the network narrative changed: Palin became a demon, victimizing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama with unfair criticism
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Network coverage of Sarah Palin has been so distorted and out of balance that the public cannot trust what they’re hearing from ABC, NBC and CBS about the GOP vice-presidential nominee. The networks have been so intent on assassinating Palin’s character that they have turned for added ammunition to sources they normally ignore – conservative columnists and comedians.
Sarah Palin’s nomination changed the presidential race, creating a real threat to the media’s preferred candidate, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. ABC, NBC and CBS have rallied to Obama’s defense by working hard to bring Palin down.
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Yeah, and the women in the media nodded approvingly. Sexism is alive and well, and it’s not going to end well for the pigs.
Who notices that Obama does not like adult women around him, just like most Muslim men. They are bred that way as children.
She didn’t help herself much.
Know any other VP candidate that needs the Grandpa/Presidential candidate to guard you during press interviews?
What’s up with joint interviews?
I don’t recall any other pair doing that, and maybe they did once in a while, not over and over.
If she can’t or don’t want to answer what magazines and newspapers she reads, what her running mate’s positions are, any SC decision besides Roe v Wade that she could name, what Bush Doctrine is, defend your own healthcare plan instead of chaning subject to energy, request the debate format be changed to two minutes answers and 30 second rebuttals, so you don’t have to talk about a subject for 5 minutes with 2 minute rebuttals, Wardrobe Gate, Trooper Gate.....
Media would have tried to destroy her no matter what.....but in this case, it was the easiest target ever.
Just one thing, you need to change the animals in that graphic to PIGS.
Preview of things to come....government controlled media.
CBS,NBC,FOX covering the infomercial right now, ABC is not. What’s up with that? (broadcast TV, not cable)
She is one of us and we love her.
So I don’t give a damn about your inside-the-beltway BS standards.
Too bad you are not part of overwhelming majority in America.
Wish there was some better way of measuring success in elections than couning votes.
Her rallies are electric. She inspires beyond the conservative base--exactly like Reagan did.
Academic, political and journalistic elites will be apologizing or jumping out of windows very shortly.
Will you be voting for the messiah, little acorn? How many times?
Who cares. Stop watching them. Cancel your cable. You are providing them the money they need to keep up their attacks. Sports Center and Discovery channel are not worth it.
JoMa
She may not meet your standards but she IS IN OUR SIDE, and that my fellow FReeper is the real issue here. Are you with us?
Mobs have never been my thing.
This with or against us nonsense has turned everyone against us.
GREAT cartoon, by the way...I’ve never seen anyone get treated so shamefully and unfairly than Sarah Palin has by the demonic hypocrites on the left. Black people voting for Obama are to a man, most spiteful, unfair and judgemental...regurgitating all the hateful propaganda that the Tom Joyner type brainwashers are programming them to say. The media, with the exception of Fox is disgusting, just plain disgusting. Show biz types included with all the rest. I liked Sarah from the beginning, and was impressed by her personality, brains and looks and all the things in general that made me think that she’s a quick learner, and can come into her own as a genuine candidate for President with some experience, but in recent times, under all this ABUSE from the other side, all this hateful treatment, I’m even more impressed by the grace, character and Christian goodness she has displayed, even offering her daughter to BABYSIT for that hateful little shrew Tina Fey, of all things. (There’s a related story out there somewhere on that). She has my admiration and support against the left, and the leftist media, both whom I hate so much.
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