Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/romney_report" target="_blank">http://www.journalism.org/anal...y_report</a> Clearly all that lamestream liberal media coverage just skewers that wacky Mormon Mitt Romney while it goes after Obama with kid gloves, cause, you know...the black thing. Gotta be politically correct. Well, not so much. Pew's review of the 2012 primary campaign shows mostly negative portrayals of Obama, while Romney had both positive and negative portrayals. Romney fared far better than Obama, when all is said and done.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper "In the case of President Obama, the public has been exposed to a mostly negative portrayal. That, in substantial part, is a function of the fact that for many months he has been the target of multiple Republican candidates attacking his record and his competence as they sought to take his job." "The numbers were similar in the Democratic battle won by Obama. Fully 78% of the coverage during the key primary battles highlighted the strategy and tactics frame, 4% was about domestic policy and 10% focused on the candidate’s record and personal life." In other words...Romney isn't being treated better than Obama. Romney is being treated like a candidate and Obama is being treated like the incumbent. I'm stunned.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Romney is being treated like a candidate and Obama is being treated like the incumbent.<< I think that's a reasonable assessment, and I don't have a problem with Obama being treated like the incumbent. This is just actual data that refutes a very common right-wing and even moderate belief that the media is liberal and goes after conservatives more than liberals. Here's one example where that's just not the case, truthiness aside.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer The media goes after the story that will bring eyes to the screen so that they can charge more for advertising.
