Posted on 11/20/2012 6:20:48 AM PST by blam
MSNBC's Bias Against Mitt Romney Was Astonishing
Brett LoGiurato
Nov. 19, 2012, 5:46 PM
No one really expects MSNBC's coverage to put a positive spin on Republicans — but in the final week of the 2012 presidential campaign, the network's coverage toward presidential nominee Mitt Romney skewed entirely negative.
According to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, MSNBC provided no "positive" coverage of Romney during the campaign's final week.
Here's a look at the chart of polarization:
By comparison, 57 percent of MSNBC's coverage toward Romney was negative during the first three weeks of October — and it did provide at least some positive coverage. Throughout the entirety of the campaign, the network's coverage was 68% negative. The rest of the combined news media's coverage of Romney, Pew found, was only 33 percent negative.
Pew found that Fox News became similarly biased during the campaign's final week — though it was not as polarized as MSNBC. Only 5 percent of its Obama coverage was positive, while 56 percent was negative. This differed from the rest of the news media, which provided more positive coverage of the president during the Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts and as polls pointed to a definitive Obama victory.
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exactly
exactly
Newt was taking them on during the debates.
You are living in the New Soviet Union, comrade. The Media are the propaganda organs (dicks) of the American Communist Party (AKA Democrats). Enjoy your socialist existence!
We seem to be stuck in this mode of pointing out problems. We need to move beyond that. We have to start asking “Why?”. And we have to stop accepting superficial answers.
“Why does MSNBC support the Democrats? Because they’re liberals.”
We need a deeper understanding.
“Understand yourself and understand your opponents, and in one hundred battles, you will not be defeated”
We were just defeated. It must be because we do not understand ourselves, our opponent or both.
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