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Report: Networks Gave Obama the Nomination
Newsmax ^ | August 20, 2008 | Jim Meyers

Posted on 08/20/2008 7:08:33 PM PDT by BlessedMom92

An exhaustive, eight-year Media Research Center study of the Big Three TV networks’ coverage of Barack Obama shows that their favorable spin on the Democrat gave him his margin of victory in the primaries, according to MRC president Brent Bozell.

The MRC notes that this year saw the closest nomination contest in a generation, with just one-tenth of a percentage point — 41,622 votes out of more than 35 million cast — separating Obama from Hillary Clinton when the Democratic primaries ended in June.

“But Barack Obama had a crucial advantage over his rivals this year: the support of the national media, especially the three broadcast networks,” an MRC report on the study states.

“At every step of his national political career, network reporters showered the Illinois Senator with glowing media coverage, building him up as a political celebrity and exhibiting little interest in investigating his past associations or exploring the controversies that could have threatened his campaign.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: barackobama; guess; obama; propagandawingofdnc; speculation
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To: clamper1797

Report ... The Network are quickly becoming enemies of a free America
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Correction: The networks have LONG BEEN enemies of a free America.


21 posted on 08/20/2008 7:59:04 PM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Does the media have an obligation to be more fair and balanced?

Ideally, I suuppose they would. One book I would recommend to people is "Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876" by the late William Rehnquist. The newspapers back then were very open about whom they supported and backed. Really fascinating stuff.

22 posted on 08/20/2008 8:03:25 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Sarah Palin can be my running mate anytime.)
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To: BlessedMom92
I think that's what B. (whose middle name must never be spoken) Obama was referring to when he said that "McCain does not know what he is up against"!!

Obama has a point. No amount of money can buy the daily, repeated assistance that the MSM gives the Obama campaign.

Just ask Hillary.

23 posted on 08/20/2008 8:04:55 PM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: clamper1797
On the same subject

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

24 posted on 08/20/2008 8:19:26 PM PDT by expatguy ("An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - New & Improved - Now with Search)
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To: BlessedMom92
skewered stats.
Remove home states and hillary wins going away.
Obama won the Illinois primary by more than 600,000 votes, while Hillary won the New York primary by little more than 300,00 votes.
25 posted on 08/20/2008 8:24:30 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I haven’t wondered about those things for quite some time now.


26 posted on 08/20/2008 10:36:14 PM PDT by Califreak (Time to give the empty suits a one way ticket to the cleaners!)
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To: BlessedMom92

Will the Media Research Center also do a study that concludes “water is wet” later?


27 posted on 08/21/2008 5:33:48 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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