Time and time again I’ve mentioned how bad the press coverage has been during this election. It’s kind of funny actually. Senator McCain loved the adoration he received from the press for the eight years every time he took a stand against Bush. Unfortunately McCain didn’t realize that once he became the Republican nominee he’d be thrown under the bus. The Pew Research Center has looked at the press coverage and found something that’s fairly obvious to objective observers.
Just 14 percent of the stories about John McCain, from the conventions through the final presidential debate, were positive in tone, according to a study released today, while nearly 60 percent were negative — the least favorable coverage of any of the four candidates on the two tickets.
How is Obama being treated you may ask? Not quite as bad.
For Barack Obama, the study found coverage “has been somewhat more positive than negative, but not markedly so,” with 36 percent of the storiees positive in tone, 35 percent mixed, and 29 percent negative.
The story goes on to say that this doesn’t mean their a bias in the press. Good luck trying to figure this one out. It’s for this reason that I don’t know how McCain would be able to govern if he’s able to pull out the win. The press has gotten pretty good at accentuating the negative the past eight years. If Obama is sworn in on January 20, 2009 the amount of positive news the next four years will be overwhelming. In the grand scheme of things it might help the current mental depression Americans find themselves in these days.
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