File Under: Media Bias

Posted on November 8, 2008
Filed Under Political Rantings |

What a surprise.  The Pew Research Center finds that the press was bias in its reporting of this year’s media campaign.  According to the report:

For Obama during this period, just over a third of the stories were clearly positive in tone (36%), while a similar number (35%) were neutral or mixed. A smaller number (29%) were negative.

For McCain, by comparison, nearly six in ten of the stories studied were decidedly negative in nature (57%), while fewer than two in ten (14%) were positive.

It is portrayed graphically:

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Even the Washington Post pleads a mia culpa.

The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but 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.

Expect the mainstream media, relentless in its campaigning for Obama to exercise this type of self flagellation in the weeks ahead.  It’s their way of acknowledging their shameless behavior.  Just don’t think that public acknowledgement will lead to anything close to return to objectivity in their coverage of the "Chosen One."

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  1. Media Bais and The Future of Blogging « Aude Sapere on December 15th, 2008 11:40 am

    [...] 15, 2008 by Stephen Hopkins The EyeHackerBlog has a post today linking to a Pew Research study detailing the significant amount of media bias [...]

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