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ProudAmericanJesusFreak on Saturday, November 08, 2008 12:50:00 PM
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 11/8/2008 4:05:00 AM
A conservative media watchdog says looking back on the 2008
presidential election campaign, there is little doubt that the liberal
establishment media played a major role in Barack Obama's victory.
Rich Noyes, director of research at the Media Research Center,
believes what is going to be remarkable when people look back at the
2008 presidential election is how the media had an absence of criticism
and an absence of skepticism for Obama, who was the frontrunner for
most of the campaign. He notes that Obama received tremendously
positive coverage.
"We charted during the primaries at seven-to-one. He received fawning
tribute from reporters who were supposed to be reporting the news and
holding both sides accountable, and he was held up as a civil rights
icon as opposed to a flesh-and-blood candidate. This gave him a huge
advantage as he pursued his campaign over, first, Hillary Clinton and
then John McCain," he contends.
"And
given the closeness of the primaries, it almost certainly made the
difference in him getting the nomination. I'm not sure, given the tenor
of times, that any Democrat wouldn't have had the advantage in the
general election, but certainly the media did nothing to hamper him on
the way to the White House."
Noyes also expects Obama to have a longer "honeymoon period" with the media than most incoming presidents.