Thinkprogress: Rev. Wright Dominated Media Coverage (so much for Obama media bias claim)

[Political Heretic]

Rev. Wright dominated media’s presidential primary coverage.»

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has officially crowned Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) relationship with his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “the dominant media story of the entire” presidential campaign, “by far.” Wright’s comments “received four times more coverage than any other theme or event throughout the campaign.” Reports of the superdelegate role and Obama’s so-called “bitter” comments were the second and third most covered stories, respectively. However, “o other story line came close to attracting as much coverage as the Wright-Obama association, and most of it was negative.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/06/rev-wright-dominated-medias-presidential-primary-coverage/

[stray cat]

1. Once again the republican talking point is taking hold - the media favors Obama

Why is it the GOP always distorts reality and all the sheep follow right behind them

[Political Heretic]

2. That talking point was created right here at DU and it is bullshit.

[papau]

3. Obama media bias was what sold him for a year and refused to chase any negatives - until Wright

[Political Heretic]

4. Riiiiight.

[cbc5g]

5. Media coverage from the MSM was totally slanted against Obama since he started winning

McCain received a free ride. But we have to realize that a lot of the talking points that went out to the MSM was from the Clinton Machine that sought to destroy Obama and his image. The RW media gladly went along with it since they knew who was going to be the nominee long before Clinton. This can be a good thing though, it makes the impact of RW smear commercials less effective since they've already been used.