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The World Wants Change
There is all this news talk about the media being biased. I suppose there is some basis for it. After all McCain is getting far less media attention than Obama.
I don't think that's it though. I think that just as the American people have repeatedly said they think the country is on the wrong track the world is expressing the same view and they want something different.
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Over the years one of the things that republicans have disliked about McCain is his closeness to the media. And it wasn't so long ago when McCain called the media his base. So it's ridiculous now that McCain and republicans would attempt to work the refs in claiming bias.
There's an old saying that no news is good news. Never has this saying applied more than it does now with the McCain campaign. Surely the 24hour news culture could follow John McCain around as closely as Barack Obama, but then they would actually have to report on the daily gaffes of the McCain campaign, the countless factual misstatements, the numerous flip-flops, the uncomfortable jokes, the inconsistencies in message, and the tired town-hall meetings.
If John McCain were held to the same standards in the media as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, the election would already be over. Instead, the media continues to gloss over their coverage of McCain, reminding us incessantly of the maverick mantra, as if we all haven't heard it before.
July 22, 2008 3:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. But I was fascinated by Borga & Gergen on AC360 today. It culminated from a week of pundits everywhere talking about the massive bias towards Obama because of that count of 114 articles to 48 for McCain. When I first heard that one I was pretty disgusted because it took no account of whether or not they were favourable.
But that AC conversation was quite illuminating I thought. I'd had inklings of it watching the Situation Room. There Cafferty is so openly biased that I've long thought the others get a bit embarrassed by it and feel they have to compensate.
And today both Borga & Gergen said that Obama is better news value: so now we know why they tend to minimise McCain's gaffes and always talk about Obama's. They've all got some sort of guilt thing going on about Obama newsability and the need to compensate.
I wonder if they'll feel the same way once the conventions are over and the GOP attacks really start in earnest.
July 22, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
I want exact change.
July 22, 2008 7:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
The world may want change, but the world doesn't get to vote.
July 22, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
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