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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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.
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.
Obama has a point. No amount of money can buy the daily, repeated assistance that the MSM gives the Obama campaign.
Just ask Hillary.
I haven’t wondered about those things for quite some time now.
Will the Media Research Center also do a study that concludes “water is wet” later?
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