Posted on 11/10/2008 5:56:47 AM PST by tobyhill
The mainstream press have been accused of being biased in favor of President-elect Barack Obama for months - a phenomenon now acknowledged by one of the nation's media heavyweights.
On Sunday, The Washington Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, offered evidence of an "Obama tilt" in her own newspaper.
"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," Ms. Howell wrote in her column.
"Now Howell gives the mea culpa in her first column after Election Day, when it's far too late to do anything about it. Where was Howell during the last three months? Why wait until the election is over to speak up? That's an answer in itself," countered Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.
"Now she tells us," quipped Byron York of National Review.
Revelations of a pro-Obama press are not new.
A Pew Research Center survey released in late October found, for example, that 70 percent of voters agreed that the press wanted Mr. Obama to win the White House; the figure was 62 percent even among Democratic respondents. The same analysis found a Democrat-friendly press dating back to the 1992 presidential election.
A current Harvard University analysis revealed that 77 percent of Americans say the press in politically biased; of that group, 5 percent said it skewed conservative.
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We may very well be going quietly.....
Right now I expect that the RATS are talking about how to shutdown FR and leave KOS and DU up.
KOS and DU will know in advance what the deal will be (the details will be buried in a mammoth document or slipped in at the last minute) on fairness and neutrality, and Jim Robinson & FR won’t know anything... until it’s too late.
We will have violated some tenet of this doctrine and it’s lights out.
for reasons that i do not understand,
our side is less aggressive at all levels.
This is old old news. We know the media is biased. It’s a fact of life. Incessant whining about it accomplishes nothing.
What we should be focusing on is how to defeat the left. Anything else is just hot air.
I didn’t read it.
we will speak.....I don't know how or where but the people will be heard.....
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