New Pew Study Shows News Media No Longer In The Tank For President Obama

[Tx4obama]

New Pew Study Shows News Media No Longer In The Tank For President Obama

A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that, over the past five months, President Obama has received overwhelmingly negative coverage by the news media, far outdistancing his Republican rivals for the 2012 presidential race. Among other surprising findings, the President got negative press by more than 3 to 1 over positive coverage, while Texas Gov. Rick Perry led the GOP field in positive coverage, with a ratio of 3 to 2, but most of the candidates had more positive coverage than negative.

The report runs counter to the popular conservative idea of an “in the tank” mainstream media (I’ve never understood that metaphor. Is that a Mike Dukakis reference?), and illustrates exactly what the President (and his expected $1 billion in campaign cash) are up against. While the President benefits from the bully pulpit, he’s also held accountable by the media, on a daily basis, for just about anything and everything that happens in the country. In addition to running for reelection, he actually has to do stuff.

Pew goes into great detail about its methodology, but as a guy who thinks an algorithm is when you invent the internet and play drums at the same time, I’m not going to pretend to understand it. However, since they rated all of the candidates using the same yardstick, you can at least judge them relative to each other. Aside from the pounding President Obama is taking, there are some other surprises in the study:

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Rest of article and CHART here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-pew-study-shows-news-media-no-longer-in-the-tank-for-president-obama/

[UrbScotty]

1. "No longer?" When WERE they?

[Zoeisright]

2. Exactly.

They came out against the President in 2/09.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Exactly. It's a GOP talking point, which was later picked up by some pissed off PUMA's.

;)

[Control-Z]

5. Up until Nov 2008 -eom

[CakeGrrl]

6. +1000

Even in an article admitting negativity, they push a GOP meme about the media ever being "in the tank".

[BlueCaliDem]

4. How can any Democrat unrec this post?!? My rec vanished!

Well, I guess it surprises no one considering the milieu here since Obama won the Presidency.

That said, Pew isn't telling me anything I don't already know. The Media is always, ALWAYS in the tank for the GOP, ever since Clinton won the first time. The ONLY time they allow "liberals" on is to crack down on Democrats. At least, the media outside the evening line-up on MSNBC.

[pauldg0]

7. Let them spew all the positive info on negative ....

....Republicans. More and more people are understanding the American press ratings are dropping fast because of it's toxic bile. Occupy Wall Street should be surrounding the likes of headquarters of Fox News to start, then CNN, then CBS until they get the message that they are contributing to our Nations' troubles.