Media Bias?

From Frank Rich’s Last Call for Change We Can Believe In: “What Obama…should have learned by now is that the press is not his friend. Of course, he gets more ink and airtime than McCain; he’s sexier news. But as George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs documented in its study of six weeks of TV news reports this summer, Obama’s coverage was 28 percent positive, 72 percent negative. (For McCain, the split was 43/57.)”

3 Comments

  1. justin
    Posted August 24, 2008 at 01:37 pm | Permalink

    60% of the time, it works every time.

  2. Posted August 25, 2008 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    Dear Frank Rich,

    Could rampant, unbridled, large-scale business activities now overspreading the surface of Earth be The Problem; but the entrenched bias of mainstream media results in its refusal to comment on this ‘elephant in the living room’ of the family of humanity?

    Is the global economy a primary precipitant of worldwide ecological degradation because the distinctly human-driven construction’s gigantic size and rampant growth could soon become patently unsustainable in a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home such as Earth provides to the family of humanity?

    That is to say, could at least one of the causes of life and the Earth, as we know them, “going to hell in a handbasket” be that the global political economy is a human construction that takes its shape as a perpetual motion machine and is operated as a colossal pyramid scheme? Unfortunately, both the ‘machine’ and the scheme are unsustainable.

    Steven Earl Salmony
    AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, est. 2001
    http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php

  3. justin
    Posted August 25, 2008 at 02:53 pm | Permalink

    New favorite poster.

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