Posted on 05/13/2009 1:32:13 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
Neal Boortz @ May 13, 2009 8:32 AM
The Media Research Center did an analysis of the lamestream media's coverage of Obama's first 100 days. Guess what? Turns out that they have done a great job of sending tingles up their legs but a lousy job acting as watchdogs. MRC analysts looked at all 982 broadcast evening news stories about Obama and his administration from Inauguration Day (January 20) through April 29. Here are some of the interesting, though not surprising, things that they found: - Obama's first 100 days were defined by massive spending, aggressive intervention in the private sector and proposals for a huge expansion of the federal government. Yet none of the networks aired a single story on whether Obama's policies were pushing the U.S. toward socialism, and no reporter used the term "socialist" to describe Obama. - Not only that, network reporters never used the word "liberal" to describe either Barack Obama or his agenda during the first 100 days. - The networks lavished good press on every major initiative of the early Obama administration, including the massive stimulus package, all of the various bailouts, health care, stem cells, the environment and foreign policy. - In the days before the President unveiled his unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget -- with a record-shattering $1.75 trillion deficit -- four out of five statements on the evening newscasts parroted the White House spin that Obama was a deficit fighter. - Reporters treated Obama's hugely expensive $787 billion stimulus bill to mainly positive coverage (58 percent positive, 42 percent negative). - The networks applauded Obama's decision to use taxpayer money to fund embryo-destroying stem cell research (82% positive coverage). - Network coverage of Obama's mortgage bailout was also positive -- 59% of statements supported the bailout or wanted even more intervention, compared to 41% who opposed the bailout as unfair to responsible homeowners. - Reporters heavily skewed their coverage in favor of the President's actions on global warming (78% positive). - President Obama's decision to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan was greeted by nearly unanimous (91%) positive coverage -- a far cry from the highly negative coverage of President Bush's successful troop surge in Iraq two years ago. - Like Obama and the Democrats, the networks went on a feeding frenzy against big corporate bonuses. The networks aired six times more statements forwarding the "infuriated" reaction to business (104) than criticized politicians' grandstanding (16). - The networks spent days decrying AIG's $165 million bonuses, but hardly mentioned the $210 million in bonuses handed out by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the bailed-out mortgage giants with strong Democratic ties). ABC and NBC completely ignored the Fannie and Freddie bonuses, while the CBS Evening News gave it 27 seconds. They made him. They must support him.
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/05/nothing-but-a-bunch-of-obama-c.html
The MSM is losing credibility everyday.
Josep Gobbles did not run a propaganda machine that was THIS efficient. In particular ABCBSNBCNN and NPR take their news leads straight from DNC talking points.
Problem is...folks have mostly figured out many of these “reporters” are on the DNC team...I’m beginning to suspect that some have been paid off. A lot of Soros money still floating around.
There is less objectivity than was found in Pravda during the height of the Cold War.
The media is a laughing stock and no longer an accurate record of contemporary events and issues.
They are well trained lapdogs!
The bigger they are the harder they fall. I’m figuring(hoping) the big media buildup will lead to a big public letdown by about 2012. George Washington couldn’t live up to the hype.
Shep’s face on that little dog is too funny!
Great commentary on the MSM.......that picture says a thousand words!
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