Obama Wins In Coverage -- But Much of It Critical

[flowomo]

from:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003719105

By Joe Strupp
Published: March 04, 2008

NEW YORK -- Barack Obama received more campaign coverage than any other candidate during the past week, with 69% of campaign stories focusing on him, according to a survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which noted that to be the highest percentage for any candidate this year.

But does that mean that Hillary Clinton's charge that he is the media darling is correct? Not exactly. The Obama coverage was more critical and in-depth, the survey revealed, stating: "The media scrutinized everything from his legislative record to his connections to Louis Farrakhan, and frequently addressed the question of whether journalists have been too soft on the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination." The review also stated, "Hillary Clinton’s complaints about a pro-Barack Obama media tilt helped prompt examinations of Obama’s record and catapulted him to a first-place finish in the competition for media exposure."

The survey, which tallied stories between Feb. 25 and March 2, reviewed coverage from 48 media outlets, including 13 newspapers ranging from the likes of The Washington Post to the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press. The review reported that Hillary Clinton came in second, noting she was "a significant or dominant factor" in 58% of campaigns stories during that week, "her highest level of coverage in 2008."

[npincus]

1. Hillary's whining worked!

Mission Accomplished. The MSM is as afraid of her as they are of the Chimp.

[Bread and Circus]

2. Good read. Obama has been hammered really hard and I can't

say I remember Clinton getting dissected like this.

[TheWraith]

3. And yet the Hillary campaign whines that he hasn't been vetted. nt

[Bread and Circus]

5. It seems really suspicious to me that the week leading up to one of the biggest primary

events of the season is peppered with some of the most exasperating and biased reporting on Obama that far outstrips the type of microscopy that has been heaped upon a candidate since Gore in 2000.

[Purveyor]

4. The media has been beating the hell out of Barak the past week. They just can't

stand the thought of having to go back to covering Britney, Hilton and Drew Peterson stories if Hillary concedes to Obama.

Not to mention of course, the loss in ad revenues...