Posted on 12/26/2008 11:29:09 AM PST by chessplayer
Heres a textbook definition of bias by story placement in a newspaper. On Christmas Eve, the Washington Post placed the release of the Obamas transition teams report on contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich on page A3 headlined "Obama Report Clears Dealings with Blagojevich." Centered right underneath the headline in this four-column story was a gray two-column box with a sidebar headlined in capitals "OBAMA ATTENDS SERVICE FOR GRANDMOTHER." But on Christmas Day, this Obama story was on Page One of the Post: "As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases."
The December 25 front-pager, written by Obama-friendly Post reporter Eli Saslow, began by showing how devoted the new president will be to the peoples business:
Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials. Hes not in the White House yet, but gone are the hours he once spent reading novels, watching television, and obsessing over the daily transactions of Chicagos sports teams. He eat out only once every few weeks. He visits friends rarely, if at all.
But one habit endures: Obama has gone to the gym for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He has always treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the last few months. Between workout during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off his chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.
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Obama doesn’t appear to have ‘chiseled pectorals’. The picture that I saw showed the early development of man-breasts. Sorry, just calling it as I see it....
News Stories??? No sadly these are love letters.
Washington Post — no need to go any further....
Who is paying for Obambi’s lavish vacation?
Is he paying for it through his campaign money which I believe is illegal?
Is a private party paying for it and why?
Soon to be on page none.
Yuck. Chiseled pectorals, my hindend!
Nothing’s chiseled on that man.
This is starting to get weird. I wonder if tomorrows story will be how the dear leader shot a 43 with 7 holes in one at the golf course.
Agreed!
Yeah, I commented about those man-breasts on another thread. They were worse in the original picture in Hawaii during the election. It looks like he’s not doing enough decline bench press exercises.
As my teenage girls call them....moobs!!
‘Chiseled Pectorals’? They looked more like man boobs to me. Putin looked more manly the the boy one with the man boobs.
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