Uh sorry, the Media jumped on the Obama-Train late.. After the voters pushed him up.

[meow mix]

this claiming that the Media built and shills for Obama is a bunch of sour grapes bs! ;p
:rant:

:patriot:

of course they love him now duh..

[Eurobabe]

1. Yeah, weren't they crowing that Hillary was inevitable for months?

Then the voters showed up.

Fucking imagine that. :shrug:

[papau]

2. nope - read the December to current transcripts of MSNBC - pro Obama bias is obvious

[TwilightGardener]

3. I remember, in October, the media ripping him, saying "When is Obama

going to make his move? When is he going to get aggressive and take on Hillary? She's 30 points up in the polls, he's not doing anything about it!"

[Skittles]

4. are you kidding?

Obama and HRC were annointed front-runners from the start

[meow mix]

5. they only spoke of him like an anomally that wouldnt go to far..

and pick on him, a lot. but thats about it..

[Skittles]

6. LOL

that is NOT what I saw - not at ALL =========>

There is no impertinence in saying that Obama and McCain have both been media darlings. Obama has, by one empirical measure, gotten the most favorable press. A study released last October by the nonpartisan Project for Excellence in Journalism found that Obama, in the early stages of the primary campaign, was the clear recipient of the most positive coverage when compared to all presidential candidates, Democrat or Republican. "Taken together, nearly half (47 percent) of all stories focused on Obama were positive. That is roughly three times the percentage that were negative (16 percent) and exceeds the 38 percent of stories that were neutral in tone," the study found.

http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/cocc080226.htm

[Beregond2]

7. Media

Absolutely right. They spent years anointing Hillary. Obama became a story only when his popularity became impossible to ignore.

[jackson_dem]

10. How did a senator who hadn't completed 2 years in DC become so popular?

Look at his poll numbers before he even began running for president. How did he get so popular? Word of mouth? Or was it because the msm had breathlessly been clamoring for the savior to run from at least November of 2006?

[casus belli]

8. Obama's train left in 2004

after his keynote address. It's only been building momentum ever since.

[jackson_dem]

9. Obamites think that. In fact the msm pushed him from day one

He was a distant second yet he received about as much coverage, nearly all of it positive, as Hillary did at the beginning of the campaign while Edwards, who was closer to Obama than Obama was to Clinton, got less than 1/6 the coverage Obama got and even much of that was simply about his wife's cancer announcement.

Whether coverage of the candidates was positive or negative.

Obama: 47% positive, 16% negative.
Clinton: 27% positive, 38% negative.
McCain: 12% positive, 48% negative
Giuliani: 28% positive, 37% negative
JDNE

Net numbers

Obama +31
Giuliani -9
Clinton -11
McCain -36

http://www.journalism.org/node/8187

These are from the first five months of the campaign. If anyone has a newer study post it. There is little reason to believe the tenor of reporting changed from that point until Iowa. Since then as the sniping has escalating the positive numbers for each candidate must have dropped, with the brief exception of the media orgasm for Obama after Iowa and McCain's favorable coverage since New Hampshire.

-snip-

Hillary Clinton is getting the worst press and Barack Obama the best press of any major presidential candidate

-snip-

Sen. Barack Obama has led the race for good press and Sen. Hillary Clinton has lagged the farthest behind. From Dec 16 through Jan 27 five out of six on-air evaluations of Obama (84%) have been favorable, compared to a bare majority (51%) of evaluations of Mrs. Clinton.

-snip-

The gap in good press has widened since the New Hampshire primary, with Clinton dropping to 47% positive comments and Obama holding steady at 83% positive.

http://www.cmpa.com/election%20news%202_1_08.htm

Newspaper endorsements (as of January)



Obama leads 17-4, a rate of 81% to 19%, when you exclude predictable home state endorsements.

[I Vote In Pittsburgh]

11. "He's a media creation!!!! He isn't REALLY inspirational!!!"

Just another meme of the day. By now, I just take humor in how desperate they are.

In this one, voters are stupid because they didn't vote for the queen. They all just followed the will of the media. Spare me.

[jackson_dem]

13. It is just a fluke the media darlings are the front-runners for both parties

McCain became a media darling again after losing that status bigtime in 2007 when Giuliani flamed out and the rethug corporate media decided to prop up the most electable viable rethug. They knew Romney and Huckabee would be disasters so they attacked the former and ignored the latter after Iowa. The media darling also won in the 2004 general and "won" the 2000 general, which should have never been close. In 1996 it was actually Bill Clinton who got better press than Dole. He won too. It's like magic!

[JI7]

12. before they were all about how he ins't black enough, can't win white voters

can't win latino voters .

he continually proved them wrong.