NYT article on whining about the media claims Obama does it too

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Starry-Eyed Media Breed Green-Eyed Candidates

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: July 30, 2008

That old devil “the media” is back in the news, and it’s still only summer.

But Senator John McCain has ushered “the media” back to the stage early this year. He seems to be newly amazed, and annoyed, at each turn by how deeply in the tank the press allegedly is for Senator Barack Obama.

It is no secret, of course, that Mr. McCain himself has enjoyed one of the coziest relationships with the media for years. A pair of new studies of the network evening news suggests that it continues: While Mr. Obama has received almost twice as much coverage as Mr. McCain since the end of the Democratic primaries, Mr. McCain’s coverage is proportionately more positive than Mr. Obama’s, the studies conclude.

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Still, it must be galling for Mr. McCain to watch as the media now shines its lights on someone new. The first President Bush was blunt about his own reaction as he watched Mr. Obama overseas: “I’m jealous,” he told reporters.

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And now comes some empirical evidence suggesting that while Mr. Obama has received more press coverage than Mr. McCain, Mr. McCain’s coverage has been more positive, at least up until Mr. Obama’s expertly stage-crafted trip overseas last week.

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We know McCain's campaign is constantly whining about the media, but the assertion here is that Obama's campaign does it too. Problem is they cite Media Matters and the liberal blogosphere, not the Obama campaign.

Also, Bush Sr. was jealous about the coverage of Obama's overseas trip?

You mean the coverage that took McBlunder's gaffes out of the news? The coverage that allowed the media to amplify the claim that Obama overstepping his bounds? The coverage that spawned this?

On edit: Evidently, as the last paragraph in the NYT snip suggests, the MSM favorable coverage of McCain ended after Obama's trip. I guess that means this is considered positive coverage?




edited for clarification.

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1. Maybe, everyone is being too hard on the media.

McClown has been whining about the media for months. Why do you think the NYT wrote this story now, especially implying that Obama campaign does the same think?