If I hear the mind control trigger word "LIBERAL" one more time I think im going to vomit. Honestly.

If the media is being unfair giving Obama more attention than McCain, making Obama look good...give it some time. They will be dogging him when hes president.

Personally I no longer vote in a plutocracy we call democracy. There is no sense in it. You could be spending the time you are deciding and going to the polls with your kids, family members, or good friends.
Pluto was also the Roman version of the Greek God Hades, the God of the Underworld and wealth


Lets hope that one day when they call a war or an election NO ONE SHOWS UP...no not one. Not even the ones running for election or re-election


We get to that point we will move to the next phase of spiritual and physical evolution in a good way.

Originally posted by vor78
Who cares? Honestly, people, this study doesn't matter one bit and is not worth fighting over, whether it is fact or not.

The only thing that matters is what the polls have shown: the public overwhelmingly believes that the media is indeed biased in favor of Barack Obama. Reality or not, that's the perception, and as they say, perception is everything in politics. One study by someone that virtually no one in the general public has ever heard of is going to change this.

[edit on 28-7-2008 by vor78]

Actually I beg to differ mate. This study reflects an analysis that seeks to discover the TRUTH. And like it or not, despite what we 'perceive' the TRUTH remains the same.

In many ways this study does matter. Like I just said it matters because it is the truth.

It also matters because so many of those who perceive a bias in favor of Obama may think so because of the poor job McCain is actually doing running for office.

This is something that I think may be playing a fair roll in this perception.

I could imagine the media reaction if McCain had quoted in his book "a world in need run by black mans greed"

well, i would take this story with a grain of salt. first, the whole thing is based on opinion. heres the quote:

"The center reviews and "codes" statements on the evening news as positive or negative toward the candidates. For example, when NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell said in June that Obama "has problems" with white men and suburban women, the media center deemed that a negative."

so basically we have someone giving us their opinion on if the article is positive or negative. im sure i could review over the same exact material and come up with completely different answers.

In most instances ive seen, if they show obama in a negative light, its only for a second, and then they talk about how great he is. For example, in the quote above the article has the sentence that was coded as negative "obama has problems with white men and suburban women"

what comes before that, or comes after that? it could be "the polls are out, looks like obama has problems with white men and suburban women. this is in no way a negative comment. just giving the results of a poll. (i made this sentence up, i tried to find the actual article but couldnt). since we dont know how they are defining what is negative and what is positive, its pointless to even mention this article.

and im just thinking here, but could a lot of the "negative comments" that they are referring to possibly be about if obama could get the backing of the hillary supporters? this topic was very prevalant in the first few weeks, and according to the example of a negative comment given in the article, i would assume that they would use this as a negative too.

lastly, you have to realize that most people probably dont care as much about politics as most of us on here do. most people will vote for a person, not the issues,at least in my opinion. its basically a popularity contest to most. so the more airtime a candidate gets, the more people hear about him, the more likely they will vote for him. look at ron paul. he made more sense then all the candidates combined, but no airtime.

I once worked for NBC News and yeah, NBC has a liberal bias. Look at MSNBC for example. That hasn't kept them from criticizing Obama sometimes, though.

NBC is balanced by Fox, which has more than a conservative bias, they have a neocon preference.

Basically, the news will jump on anything that's controversial. Controversy is what gets the ratings.
The news organizations are ultimately about sales, regardless of their bias.

Originally posted by Sestias
I once worked for NBC News and yeah, NBC has a liberal bias. Look at MSNBC for example. That hasn't kept them from criticizing Obama sometimes, though.

NBC is balanced by Fox, which has more than a conservative bias, they have a neocon preference.

Basically, the news will jump on anything that's controversial. Controversy is what gets the ratings.
The news organizations are ultimately about sales, regardless of their bias.

Fox isn't news. Scott McClellan already admitted Fox was nothing more then the Bush Admins Propaganda machine.

Former Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan said it best: "If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq."



McClellan adds, “The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”

The MSM is a tool of TPTB.