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Old 07-17-2008, 01:24 PM
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You know the media's in the tank for the Obamessiah when the New York Times notices it...

Media Stars Will Accompany Obama Overseas

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Executives at the three traditional networks say they generally devote the same resources to the candidates. But they do not dispute that Mr. Obama has received more coverage this year, not only because of the historic nature of his campaign and his newness to the political scene relative to Mr. McCain, but also because of the protracted nature of Mr. Obama’s primary battle with Mrs. Clinton, which was at a peak when Mr. McCain last went to Iraq.

The imbalance has appeared in various analyses of the news coverage. The Tyndall Report, a news coverage monitoring service that has the broadcast networks as clients, reports that the three newscasts by the networks — which have a combined audience of more than 20 million people — spent roughly 114 minutes covering Mr. Obama since June. They spent about 48 minutes covering Mr. McCain, who made the rounds of the evening newscasts in satellite interviews last week.
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The media, in the tank for Barrackstar? You don't say?

Not just the Times, but now the Washington Post is being forced to admit it:

3 Anchors to Follow Obama's Trek Abroad

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Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.

John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor.
I no longer buy the notion that they're covering Obama more because we know so much more about McCain then we do Barrack. Over the past 6 months, I certainly know more about Barrackstar than I ever knew about McCain, Bush, and so on and so forth. You can't go a day without having more and more of him shoved in your face.
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Is Obama going to become the first embedded candidate?
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Old 07-18-2008, 12:56 AM
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Is Obama going to become the first embedded candidate?
I wouldn't be suprised if he starts drawing out his "Plan For Iraq" in the sand (ala Rivera). Then again, all it needs is a good gust of wind for it to change.

Even the media stars suffer from the "Obama Madness" that has been spreading like wildfire. What will become of Barry when the fires dwindle, I wonder...

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I wouldn't be suprised if he starts drawing out his "Plan For Iraq" in the sand (ala Rivera). Then again, all it needs is a good gust of wind for it to change.

Even the media stars suffer from the "Obama Madness" that has been spreading like wildfire. What will become of Barry when the fires dwindle, I wonder...

I do not know, but I certainly hope if he does become POTUS, he will make wise decisions. I wish that for McCain too.
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I do not know, but I certainly hope if he does become POTUS, he will make wise decisions. I wish that for McCain too.
I agree. Whoever is in the White House come January, my hope is that they will take this country in the direction that keeps our country going in the right direction. A few adjustments here and there to weed out the bad policies and fine tune our position is the world, but no EXTREME MAJOR shift in the way we do things.
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