Anyone else get the impression the media is afraid of Obama becoming our next President?

[HopeforChange]

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. No !

[Lou Queb]

23. Sorry, edited

Mistake-edit

[papau]

24. I agree - the media has been tearing down Hillary and pushing Obama for a year - but McCain will be

their true love in the general.

[tekisui]

2. They shouldn't be, he sells.

They want a longer race for the ratings, they've been milking it for a while now.

[anonymous171]

3. Yes. During the Clinton years major networks such as Fox thrived on Clintonhate

Without a Clinton to abuse they don't know what to do.

[redstate_democrat]

4. The status quo is shaking in its boots!

It's way eerie

[HopeforChange]

7. I agree 100% - Someone is very scared.

[tridim]

20. The media is the status quo

So yes I think the media is afraid. Faux is probably in the fetal position right now.

[HopeforChange]

5. I just think they are making him look bad ...

and they are the ones blowing up the Wright Gate and Bitter Gate issues.

Where is SniperGate

[muntrv]

6. Outside of the MSM's all Wright all the time and "bittergate," naaaawww.

[BklynChick]

8. yes, i do

[HopeforChange]

9. I think if it is not the media ... whoever controls it is.

[PM7nj]

10. Now how'd you get that crazy idea in your head?!

[EFerrari]

11. They're afraid to attack him because they think he will be.

They still attack him but not nearly as much as they could. :)

[CatsDogsBabies]

12. I think they are counting on him being the next President

he is the only one you hear anything about. It is amazing how much attention he gets. Even those who don't "like" Obama want to hear about him, think about everything he says, etc. People are just generally interested in him. I don't think the media would be as happy without him as they are with him.

[flowomo]

13. bologna -- the media adapts to the reality of the moment

Obama would be a terrific, mediagenic president. They'd love him.

[Mags]

14. don't know about the media being afraid, but I sure as hell am.

[monmouth]

15. Absolutely, at first he was a novelty to them. Handsome, smart,

with a great campaign staff. Then when he started to show grit and started to win, reality kicked in. He isn't going to owe anything to anybody, like their corporate bosses...Uh oh, this guy could do some serious damage to our comfort zones. He's popular with all age groups, whites, blacks, and a good number of his own political peers. Yep, this guy could pull it off and upset the applecart. They're damned scared of him and well they should be....Gobama!!

[HopeforChange]

18. My sentiments exactly

[maximusveritas]

16. No, they just want to prolong the race

It's the same reason they were unfair to Clinton when she was ahead. The media wants a good story for as long as possible. That's all there is to it.

[LWolf]

17. No, not at all. n /t

[Tribetime]

19. EXACTLY

[Upfront]

21. Yes!

I made that exact comment to my wife as we watched ABC nightly news and Dobbs tonight. I said they are scared to death of Obama.

[crankychatter]

22. When asked how the Government controls the Media, Noam Chomsky replied,

"The government doesn't tell the Media what to do. The Corporations, which ARE the media, tell the Government what to do."

The media isn't frightened... they're ARROGANT and rightly so... look at their past successes.

Yes, I agree with you though... he wouldn't take ALL THE MONEY and he must be stopped. We can't have a "loose cannon" at the Helm of State.

They're going to fry him... and WE are going to vote for him anyway.

Even, we here online at DU, are utterly obsessed with whatever tripe the MSM is currently spewing... in mute recognition of the FACT that they've been "managing" public opinion for so long...

"manufactured consent"

[Lou Queb]

28. Do you really beleive the media are acting deliberately on behalf of corporate power ?

If it is indeed true, I wonder how can people involved in that tolerate the whole gimmick

[crankychatter]

32. big media consolidation and editorial singularity are well documented

Since Joe McCarthy... since Caspar Weinberger was working for the CIA, while ostensibly managing PBS in San Francisco... since Clinton the First gave the big green light in ninety six...

google media reform movement...

get involved.... it won't be long... they'll be slowing the flow online and they are going to Cable-ize the flow of information on the internet as well... you know about net neutrality?

This may be THE LAST TIME we get to do an end run around the LOCKDOWN corporations have on our Electoral Process...

you better pray Obama wins, to whatever god I don't believe in

[Lou Queb]

33. Sorry Crankychatter, I know nothing about what you just said, an ''end run'' around the lockdown ?

Do you truly beleive it is going that far in that direction ? And yet, nobody seems to care ? How come the people working for the networks and the bosses could think like that ? Is this the world they want future generations to grow up in ?

[crankychatter]

34. oh ok... you can PM too... I have more information on Public Campaign Financing

I don't always check these things

yes it is going that far

end run, as in football?

campaign financing in america is done through the PACs that Obama has taken no money from

that's a blockage in our representative republic unintended by the framers of the constitution

SO... what happens is this... most of the same people that finance the PACs that finance campaigns... have corporate interests... transnational corporations... war profiteers, energy transnationals.... nuclear energy... megapharms... medical industry... see?

They have SUPER CITIZEN status because our elected officials are dependent on them to finance their campaigns... they have unfettered access to them. In the last two administrations of GOP dominion... they actually WRITE THE LEGISLATION... all our officials do is make grand speeches and cash the checks... see?

This is a First Ammendment, free speech right, according to our Supreme Court...

NOW... BIG MEDIA is not just ONE of those PACS... big media is owned by interests beyond big media itself....

for example... CNN... war profiteers and energy transnationals...

MSNBC... General Electric and Nuclear Power...

see? That's how we end up with a corporate lackey, elitist at the helm of state... election cycle after election cycle... the anti-War candidate, the HONEST candidate... always gets the shaft in the media

SO... THIS is an end run... Obama's campaign is chiefly financed through INTERNET CONTRIBUTIONS... it's an 'END RUN' around this impregnable coalition of Media, Corporations and Government.... it's an EVIL SYMBIOSIS and until we break this symbiosis, America and the World are in grave danger.

OK? with MORE media consolidation... the loss of internet neutrality... this MAY BE OUR LAST CHANCE... to get an honest president.

See?

[crankychatter]

36. check your mail. lou

you gots mail

[crankychatter]

37. one more thing... go to www.democracynow.org EVERYDAY

5 days a week

one hour news podcast online... you can watch it anytime

there you go... I have lots more for you anytime

[Lou Queb]

25. So where is Obama taking his financial support to run his campain ?

I wonder how he made it through...is he like an unpredicted candidate, an accident ?

[KAZ]

26. Are you ready for the fight. You think this is going to be easy?

Think again.

[HopeforChange]

27. Watch the movie "Loins for Lambs" ...

The Media sells the Government Propaganda.

Right now... Right before the PA primary ... the Bitter Bit.
It is getting far too much attention and not to help Obama in PA that's for sure.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. No, they have been hyping him since January 2007. He is a front runner because of the MSM.

Love just love him. They dont care if he calls poor people poor white trash. It is what the MSM thinks, too,

[onehandle]

30. No. They were afraid of Edwards. That's why their corporate masters ordered them to ignore him.

Corporate America is quite comfortable with either of the remaining Centrists.

[bigwillq]

31. No

The media is the media. Some outlets are ga-ga over him and some aren't. If he becomes president, I feel in the beginning they will love him, praise him..

"And here's our first African-American president...the wife is beautiful
and the kids are soo cute. Now that's an American family for you"


Then when he has to make some stern policy decisions, he will be criticized. Just like all the other presidents in history.

[HuffleClaw]

35. it was the media that has been propping him up thus far

and now they will happily send him back to obscurity