Posted on 11/09/2008 3:07:36 PM PST by Orange1998
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 John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces (58) about McCain 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. Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Post reporters, photographers and editors - like most of the national news media - found the candidacy of Obama, the first African-American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic.
Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a teenager. One gaping hole in coverage involved Joe Biden, Obama's running mate. When Governor Sarah Palin was nominated for vice-president, reporters were booking the next flight to Alaska. Some readers thought the Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected Biden. They are right; it was a serious omission. Jeff Poor of the Business and Media Institute wonders if the media will continue its policy of not scrutinising Obama: PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has some baggage pertaining to the financial crisis. Emanuel, a senior adviser for former president Bill Clinton throughout the 1990s, was appointed to the board of Freddie Mac upon his departure from the
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God bless you Jim. This site give me hope and it will be, in the next 4 years, the only place our voices will be heard.
The media will never go against "the one". I predict that every scandal, and there will be many, will go will not be investigated.
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Don’t blame you. I’m thinking about moving to Alaska. I served in the Army near Anchorage for two years from April 67 to April 69. Would be great moving to Sarah country.
Media—ooops so sorry about that we didn’t know we were so biased, we promise we wont do it again really you can trust us.
I would say that about says it. LOL
Your friends will put you back together. I have never been so mad in my life.
Go away. Just go away, you rotten pieces of shit, with your stupid mea culpas. No one cares about you anymore. You’re history. Subscriptions-cancelled. TV stations-unwatched. You’re irrelevant. Go suck Obama’s toes.
I’d move there if it weren’t so cold. I hate the cold. (So why am I still in cold, rainy Oregon?) I’m looking at SW Missouri or OK. Would like to be closer to my aging parents.
Yeah, I probably won't move to Alaska since my wife is cold natured too. :-) Right now, I live in Boone County in Missouri which was the only county to go blue with the exception of St. Louis and Kansas City. Ugg!! Really depressed me to see my county surrounded by a sea of red counties. At least Missouri went to McCain.
I've lived in SW Missouri and really liked it there. It is a very conservative area of Missouri. Good luck on any decision you make.
Thanks for the pat on the back, I really needed it FRiend.
They are just bragging.
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You’re welcome.
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