This is excellent research, facts, quotes and context. It is a compendium of reports supporting its assertion that most corporate media does not perform very well. Clearly most of the reporting on this matter has not included any context in which one can ascertain the rationale, but rather, has opted to foster the argument that Obama broke his pledge, which is patently untrue - the pledge had a caveat, a king-sized caveat. The McCain campaign's shady gaming of the public funds pool ... More »

My understanding of the role of reviewers with the NewsTrust is to evaluate the coverage of issues in the media. In doing so, we are supposed to suppress our personal feelings about the issues in exchange for evaluating the journalistic merit of the stories we read. This piece is intended to do just that--it makes a contention about the press--that coverage of the public financing issue was not fair--and supports that contention with actual clips from all the major news sources. It ... More »

A penetrating, well researched, widely quoting article that rips away the non-stop pro-McCain propragandizizng that has become standard corporate media policy since McCain became the default special interests presidential candidate. What Americans really deserve from the "Liberally biased media" is nothing more than a level planying field. But as Media Matters for America notes, there is: "a pattern of media portrayals of any news, even seemingly negative, as good news for the ... More »

The story shows the big corporate press echoing negative republican responses to Obama choosing to forgo public campaign financing funds, and their failure to mention the illegal chicanery used by McCain in dropping out of public financing for the primary and using matching payment funds for loan security. Obama did a smart strategic reversal when presented with good situational data. McCain flop-flipped and managed to also commit a crime punishable by up to five years in prison. ... More »

The McCain campaign has challenged their opponent to accept public funding. The media has not been reporting this story fairly. Media Matters exposes the deceptive tactics that avoid a little discussed problem McCain has with financing his campaign. Loaded with facts , quotes, and explanations of Federal Election Finance Laws the problem is massive for McCain and his bid for President.

It is not clear what McCain’s disagreement with one member of the FEC (politically motivated?) during the primaries, has to do with Obama’s decision to reject public finances for his general election campaign. Avoiding confusion is a primary objective of good journalism.

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. It is largely made up of quotes from various newspapers. The author contributed little to the piece. The piece is heavily slanted toward the Democrats, and makes no effort at balance.