Amid Charges of Bias, the Media Swarm on Obama Overseas

Journalism.org by Mark Jurkowitz | Jul. 29, 2008 (News Analysis)

arack Obama's July 24 speech to a crowd of about 200,000 in Berlin provided a startling campaign visual to punctuate a week of remarkable media attention. A story about the event on CNN.com, complete with video, quoted the network's European political editor saying Obama "is one of those politicians who reaches parts other politicians don't reach."

But not all of the coverage last week was flattering. By the time Obama concluded a week-long ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Politics, Media, U.S.
Topics: Obama Administration, Media and Politics, Presidential Election 2008
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Jul 29, 2008 - 8:43 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 30, 2008

The story and statistics in most of the article have a mono-focus on the percentage of air time devoted to one candidate. One has to interpret some of the corporate press questions he quotes and get to the end of the article before he mentions the quality of the coverage. Many of the coverage stories were presented with adversarial and negative slants and looking for gaffes. No coverage here of issues. No comparison of how many interesting events were generated by McCain that the ... More »

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