[lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:38:09 -0700 (PDT)
Eric, did you get all upset at the 2000 election? The really sad part is
nobody got upset about it. That was an extreme loss to our republic.
Regarding today's catastrophe, why aren't you outraged that the people who
messed up so seriously, the CEO's and hedge fund managers and others, are not
only not being fired or sent to prison, but they're given the 700 billion to
gamble away?
--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: last honest reporter missing
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 6:51 PM
>>If you or anyone wants to shout media bias, then
produce the research in terms of positive and negative
column inches or newstime.
Simon, I'll take it as signal of your off-site status
that you haven't encountered this research elsewhere.
(I'm not necessarily going to be upset if Obama wins,
by the way.) Here are some links I found without any
trouble at all.
http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2008/fax20081023.asp
The networks challenged McCain's ads as false or
distorted three times more often than they disputed
Obama's commercials. A total of 18 stories suggested
inaccuracies with one or more campaign commercials,
with reporters challenging a total of 18 McCain ads as
false, compared to just six Obama ads.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1828309,00.html
Crushing on Obama
By Ramesh Ponnuru Thursday, Jul. 31, 2008
[if Time is too lowbrow, try Columbia Journalism Review]
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/tunned_into_ilence.php
$tunned into $ilence
Why isnʼt the media asking more questions about Obamaʼs
fundraising success?
[the perception of bias is widespread]
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20081024.asp#1
"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. Specifically: "By a
margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want
to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another
8% say journalists don't favor either candidate, and
13% say they don't know which candidate most reporters
support." The question: "Who do you think most
newspaper reporters and TV journalists want to see win
the presidential election -- Barack Obama or John
McCain?" Unsurprisingly, 90 percent of Republicans
recognized how journalists hope Obama is victorious,
yet so did 62 percent of Democrats and independents.
Pew noted how "in recent presidential campaigns,
voters repeatedly have said they thought journalists
favored the Democratic candidate over the Republican,"
but "this year's margin is particularly wide." By
comparison: "At this stage of the 2004 campaign, 50% of
voters said most journalists wanted to see John Kerry
win the election, while 22% said most journalists
favored George Bush. In October 2000, 47% of voters
said journalists wanted to see Al Gore win and 23% said
most journalists wanted Bush to win. In 1996, 59% said
journalists were pulling for Bill Clinton."
This year, by party affiliation: "In the current
campaign, Republicans, Democrats and independents all
feel that the media wants to see Obama win the
election. Republicans are almost unanimous in their
opinion: 90% of GOP voters say most journalists are
pulling for Obama. More than six-in-ten Democratic and
independent voters (62% each) say the same."
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