More than half of all campaign segments (284, or 55%) focused on the Democrats, compared with just 152 (29%) devoted to the Republican candidates.
The skew in favor of the Democratic race has been evident all year. In January, the networks all excitedly jumped on the announcements that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would join the race, contributing to a total of 52 Democratic stories that month. In contrast, the GOP contest garnered just five stories that month, a ten-to-one imbalance.
I noticed this as well:
MRC analysts noted distinct themes in the coverage each candidate received. In general, they discovered that the top Democratic candidates have been treated like celebrities, while coverage of the top GOP contenders has emphasized their flaws and problems.
This happens all the time as well:
Of the 111 agenda questions posed to Democrats, more than twice as many reflected liberal priorities (77, or 69%) as confronted the candidate with a conservative point (34, or 31%).
Of the 45 agenda questions posed to the GOP candidates, 37 of them (82%) were predicated on liberal ideas, compared to just eight questions (18%) that reflected a conservative agenda
These are all clear tricks of how to weave in that media bias. Read the whole article. I wonder if the average person sees the bias in the questions? I bet they do not. See, when you are a liberal, you are going to ask liberal questions, because that is what is important to you, and you believe that is what is important to the American people.Just think how much better the conservative candidate has to be in order to beat the Democrat and the media.
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Actually, you should be very pleased about these figures, because if the Republics had to spend much more time talking about issues of any kind, they would be exposed as weak candidates they are.
Why do you think that the "candidate" that gets the most buzz is the one that hasn't even announced yet?
Whaaaaa, poor ignored neocons.
Jim is on the money. That exposure is not all positive exposure. As a matter of fact it could be argued it was largely negative, so once again you build a straw man.
I am from Iowa and have been visiting for the last week. The paper shows what candidates are touring the state and where to see them. While all of the top 5 Dem candidates are here. Only Mccain and Romney are here on the republican side. Think maybe the dems may get more coverage because they are actually out there doing something!?
Great job on trying to recreate the non existant "liberal media".
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Good! Maybe the "meed-ya" has finally come to its senses and stopped trying to be "fair" to its own masters...
Neocons deserve nothing but destruction.
If you want to know my response, just take any of your screeds about conservative talk radio, substitute "liberal" for "conservative" and "morning show" for "talk radio".
i.e. If people wanted to hear the conservative viewpoint on morning shows, the market would supply it. Nobody is interested in your conservative whining and divisiveness, and morning show producers know that their main job is to sell ad space. They are going to give the people what they want in order to get ratings.
If your party were able to compete in the marketplace of ideas, you wouldn't need to be making your weekly pleas for the return of the fairness doctrine, Game.
Excellent post Realism!!
Man are you guys simple. In talk radio, there are an endless number of shows that can be put on the air. There are no networks that have a set schedule. Even clear channel has different programs in different cities all over the country. Network TV is three main stations. They report the news with a bias.
Also, talk radio does not pretend to be balanced, as the liberal networks do. Not even the same topic or idea.
God was that easy...
But realism, thanks for admitting you think the fairness doctrine and the unfairness in talk radio is not valid.
Finally, no one can argue the fact that the coverage is not balanced...thank you for proving my point simpletons.
Sure, game.
We realize you want affirmative action for yourself (and why not? You've become accustomed to receiving it as a matter of course...)
How are we doing on checking into the paper trails for the Diebold machines, and the absentee ballots?
Soon enough, the Rethugs will start singing their "not enough time and resources to ensure a fair election" song...
There is a great example of moonbat theories as opposed to the conviction and fact after fact of actual voter fraud
Where are you facts, game? The one off guy who voted twice, you know the Republic guy?
The election fraud that Hash refers to is documented. It's not moonbat theory.
Excellent post.
I'm adding your site to my favorites.
Cowgirl
Score one for the libs on this one!
Quit acting like a bunch of crybabies!!!!
Do you really think anyone with intelligence is going to set there drooling into his toast and coffee and take sriously the drivel and senseless chit chat on the morning TV talk????
If a candidate cant get by that inane nonsense they deserve to loose. Sheesh!
Game--
Thanks for the post. Some people are impervious to evidence, and will never believe CBS, NBC, and ABC have a Democrat agenda. If the Dan Rather incident didn't convince them, nothing will.
Socialists--
Talk radio is honest about their point of view. The leftwing media newsrooms in contrast are never honest about their bias.
I'm still confused as to how you turn this all into positive coverage when they are mostly bickering among themselves. You are just looking for something to complain about just as Jason is. Me thinks thou doth protest waaaaay too much. Whining is not pretty. It is a sign you guys are now on defense instead of offense. You at least subconciously know that your party is soon to be a gonner...Jason, mr. black and white, mr. good and evil, ...If my choice is socialist or neo con I would be far prouder to claim socialist than the complete and utter disaster that the wingnut cabal that hates our Constitution. It is closer to being a good American to be a socialist than whatever excuse making constitution shreading crap that goes with your guys. Amen.
"It is closer to being a good American to be a socialist"
Well, of course the left thinks this. And no evidence can convince them otherwise, from the gulag archipelago to the chaos the Soviet-style Great Society programs have created in our inner cities.
perfect jason.
I write about the evidence that liberalism has created entire groups of people who depend on the govt, who have no skills, have no will to work or be productive...and there is never a response. That is because Ron's socialism harms and destroys society...proven every single day in our inner cities, proven in every country that is been socialist...
haha.. game.. can you pick a more biased group? And those charts.. jeesh.. donate some money to you poor republican friends.
Parklife shows he can not refute the facts....thanks
Excellent posts, folks.
Game, it is you who have failed to put your case forth lucidly and defend your own premise.
"Socialist" talking points from your masters and casting off valid, worrisome problems like those in the inner city as someone's else responsibility are as weak as any found on a street corner by any black nationalist...
Credibility in suggesting ways forward in tackling these issues is something you will need to EARN, game, by showing willingness to think out of the box, rather than just fix blame and whine about the state of the world.
It is YOU who should be suggesting action plans, not sowing seeds of divisiveness in your own communities.
Hash just said nothing...
It's not our fault you cannot read English.
The stupidity of this post is very offensive.
Aside from the whining that you continually ascribe to liberals with your pleas of "fairness", you make the absurd assumption that the additional coverage is all positive.
Of course, anybody with a BRAIN can realize that the opposite is true. From the media's constant harping on John Edwards wealth (while ignoring the wealth and astronomical speaking fees of, say, Giuliani), their attempts to create conflict between Hillary and Obama, and the attempted character assinations of Obama the goal of the media coverage is to reinforce false narratives that will help the Republicans, ala "flip flop" and "created the internet".
As far as the fact that "coverage of the top GOP contenders has emphasized their flaws and problems.", that is not bias, that's just reporting. The GOP contenders have been more notable for their flaws and problems, from McCains slavish devotion to Bush's folly, to Giuliani's decidedly non-conservative support for abortion and cross dressing, to Romney's membership in a fringe Christianist religion and Tancredo's helpful suggestion that we "bomb Mecca".
Realism's last paragraph shows why there is media bias. Realism is a liberal, to him, Republicans have all the problems and the liberals are clean. Never mind that Hillary gets campaign money funneled through a shack from a felon. The liberals in the media believe this as well. They do not have a balanced look at the world. They have the liberal slant that Realism has.
I love the commentary Game. You must be related to Howard Cosell. Are you worried that youre republican friends cant read or think for themselves? Or are you just trying to justify things in your little con world. Is the sky falling there?
Game,
The Democrats here are just corrupt sockpuppets.
Game, did you know Hsu contributed to DOYLE??? Dirty money always finds Dirty Democrats.
PCD go fuck yourself.
In recent days, NBC, CNN, and Fox News have all aired reports or discussed the case of Norman Hsu, who The Wall Street Journal suggested may have funneled illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Hillary Clinton. However, when Mitt Romney's national finance committee co-chairman Alan Fabian was charged with mail fraud, money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice, the three networks did not report or discuss it during programs available in the Nexis database.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/indicted-donor-poses-quandary-for-goplawmakers-who-accepted-funds-2007-08-15.html
wow pcd, you really have those liberals worked up
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