Media bias against Obama?

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dreVol

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Some of President Obama’s complaints about the media reflect criticisms about the MSM that we’ve made here: there’s too much horse race reporting looking at who is winning and who is losing, and not enough serious thought and reflection goes into the news. The press needs to do a better job getting serious ideas and reflective coverage out there into the news flow. We’re trying to do it here here at Via Meadia, and it isn’t easy — and we understand how public officials in both parties can be frustrated by a media climate that focuses on ‘gotcha’ journalism, who’s up and who’s down, and has a very narrow bandwidth when it comes to helping the public understand the tough and complicated issues of the day.

But overall, this president still benefits far more than most of his predecessors from a press that generally likes him, agrees with his policies on most key issues, and deeply hopes that he will be re-elected in November. Few incumbents have ever had this kind of support from the Fourth Estate; few challengers have ever had such a hard time getting a break from the media as Governor Romney.

Moreover, some of President Obama’s complaints are unsettling. As he sees it, the liberal narrative is “the truth”, competing narratives are “factually incorrect”, and the press has a duty not to treat truth on an equal basis with falsehood. By this standard, any article that doesn’t heap scorn and disdain on those who disagree with him is biased; “balance” is an illusion when it comes to subjects about which liberals are passionately convinced that they are right.
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Obama Complains: The Press Hates Me! | Via Meadia

Pretty interesting. I think most people that follow political reporting recognizing that it's become more sensationalist than fact-driven news. For Team BHO to complain, though, is hilarious.
 
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dreVol said:
Obama Complains: The Press Hates Me! | Via Meadia

Pretty interesting. I think most people that follow political reporting recognizing that it's become more sensationalist than fact-driven news. For Team BHO to complain, though, is hilarious.
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Both sides are convinced that they occupy the moral high ground when it comes to wisdom of policy. So, when the media is focused on reporting on polls, dancing horses, which of the candidates said something really inartfully, whose surrogate screwed the pooch today, and cancer ads, I think that's where the frustration comes from. Again, for both sides.
 
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Personally I hope Romney can debate because you could see his disdain and anger toward McCain and all McCain was doing was an old person ramble.
 
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Which Romney will show up at the debates?

The liberal his record shows him to be or the conservative he says he is.
 
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That's the last thing Obama should want is for the media to actually start doing their job.
 
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when you've been coddled for so long and criticism seems excessive
 
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Gramps said:
Which Romney will show up at the debates?

The liberal his record shows him to be or the conservative he says he is.
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Both. In the same sentence.
 
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At least with W you knew what you were going to get. I am afraid that what O really wants as an end result would shock and dismay even the most hardened liberal American...if he were come out and tell you prior to the election which you know he will not but he will give you hints on open mics in conversations with foreign adversaries.
 
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ncvol said:
At least with W you knew what you were going to get. I am afraid that what O really wants as an end result would shock and dismay even the most hardened liberal American...if he were come out and tell you prior to the election which you know he will not but he will give you hints on open mics in conversations with foreign adversaries.
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I didn't. He was all over the place with economic policy.
 
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I think that was because the economy itsself was all over the place. Right or wrong he relied heavily on his advisers to make alot of these decisions but feel he was mainly working on not over-correcting, at least until the real issues hit in 2007 then it was not pretty I would agree.
 
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I see this repeated everyday on Facebook...

It just isn’t that simple. Political disagreements are often about values and context—about which facts are important and should move policy rather than about whether side A or side B is right about some specific point. There’s a totalitarian impulse and a deep hostility to the concept of public debate lurking not far below the surface here, and it’s a little unsettling that President Obama seems to think there are a lot of public policy issues on which the liberal viewpoint is True and the conservative viewpoint is Dumb.
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Of course it happens in the other direction but as when "family values" people have affairs; when the "tolerant" who fail to conceive there view may not be 100% correct it's amusing.
 
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Apparently Obama's sole news source is the Hannity show. I never would have guessed...
 
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ncvol said:
At least with W you knew what you were going to get. I am afraid that what O really wants as an end result would shock and dismay even the most hardened liberal American...if he were come out and tell you prior to the election which you know he will not but he will give you hints on open mics in conversations with foreign adversaries.
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Are tin foil hats hot to wear this time of year? I would think so.
 
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That's rich. I don't think i've seen a president protected like they've done with him.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Both sides are convinced that they occupy the moral high ground when it comes to wisdom of policy. So, when the media is focused on reporting on polls, dancing horses, which of the candidates said something really inartfully, whose surrogate screwed the pooch today, and cancer ads, I think that's where the frustration comes from. Again, for both sides.
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wisdom of policy? The D's have been on the hardcore giveaways side from the time FDR kept getting re-elected for his. That will never change.
 
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GAVol said:
It's true. He's one of the least vetted candidates I can ever remember.
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the transcript thing is absolutely absurd. He spent a truckload of money keeping it sealed, clearly for legit reasons, and nobody talks about it. The birth certificate issue is another symptom of the same problem.
 
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