Nov 10 2008
Thank goodness that’s settled!
Well, that certainly takes care of that—another misunderstanding cleared up!
I knew I had to have it all wrong. My Liberal Democrat friends and family told me I was wrong, but I was just a blockhead about it!
Reuters Laugher: ‘Media Bias Largely Unseen in Presidential Race’ Newsbusters By Brent Baker.
File under: Don’t believe your lying eyes and ears. Barely two weeks after a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey determined that “by a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4,” even as 62 percent of Democrats recognized how journalists hoped Obama would be victorious,
Reuters set out to prove any and all favorable Obama coverage had nothing to do with liberal bias.
In a November 6 dispatch, “Media bias largely unseen in U.S. presidential race,” Steve Gorman of the Los Angeles bureau focused his story on undermining the “perception that mainstream news organizations routinely gave Obama preferential treatment en route to his election as the first black U.S. president.”
More on the Pew poll: My October 23 NewsBusters item, “By Nearly 8-to-1, Voters Say Journalists Want Obama to Win,” recounted:
“Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election,” a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey released Wednesday discovered. Unsurprisingly, 90 percent of Republicans recognized how journalists hope Obama is victorious, yet so did 62 percent of Democrats and independents….Another 8% say journalists don’t favor either candidate, and 13% say they don’t know which candidate most reporters support.”
Thanks to James Taranto for highlighting the Reuters article in his Friday “Best of the Web Today” compilation, where he put the Reuters headline under this heading: “If They Do Say So Themselves.”
For many more surveys this year which found the public saw a pro-Obama and/or anti-McCain or anti-Palin bias, check the “How the Public Views the Media” section of the MRC’s “Media Bias Basics.”
For videos of quotes, and many, many more, go to the “Campaign 2008 Review: Barack Obama’s Media Groupies” special November 3 edition of Notable Quotables.
Move along! There’s nothing more to see here…
—iChef Politikos
