What A Surprise! Media Shilled for Obama-Washington Post »
Posted By pc25 12 months ago in News
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.
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pc2512 months ago
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Bill Hamilton, assistant managing editor for politics, said, "There are a lot of things I wish we'd been able to do in covering this campaign, but we had to make choices about what we felt we were uniquely able to provide our audiences both in Washington and on the Web. I don't at all discount the importance of issues, but we had a larger purpose,
The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32, and Obama got the editorial board's endorsement. The Post has several conservative columnists, but not all were gung-ho about McCain.
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Dionys12 months ago
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djn3nunez312 months ago
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(After licking Scott's tears off the table)
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Cartman: Ohhh, the tears of unfathomable sadness, mmm, yummy… yummy you guys!
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memestryker12 months ago
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WaPo has been an unabashed left-leaning tool for a very long time, pc25. This is nothing new.
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My family and friends write LTEs to the Post and Times, and the Post rarely prints anything that is not embraced by the left. The Times will print both, although some consider it right-leaning overall. I can actually point to specific examples where WaPo printed left-biased material based on bad data, if you're interested. But it sounds like you're already in the know. -
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hyperbola12 months ago
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Actually the "tilt" was just about nothing, as the article points out.
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""""The number of Obama stories since Nov. 11 was 946, compared with McCain's 786. Both had hard-fought primary campaigns, but Obama's battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton was longer, and the numbers reflect that."""
One should also remember that Deborah Howell is a right-wing neocon whose own actions at the WaPo included trying to cover up lies about Jack Abramoff, Bush lies about WMDs, ...
Deborah Howell and Fred Hiatt: Fact Free and Loving It
I go back and forth on the Deborah Howell conundrum -- ignorant or craven? I always find myself touching down on the Upton Sinclair quote:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
And so we find ourselves with Lil' Debbie, failing to disappoint with this week's excuses about last week's Fred Hiatt column:
.... Yes, we know you have a lot invested in your warmongering. It has no doubt paid the giant cocktail weenie bill for years. But the fact is that there was no reason for the president to believe Iraq was seeking uranium at the time. Do we have to go through this again? I guess so. ....
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hyperbola12 months ago
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Well pc25, it is certainly true that there are monstrous issues that never get touched by our corporate media.
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Obama, Emanuel and Israel
In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun forces during the Nakba and named his son after "a Lehi combatant who was killed" -- i.e., a member of Yitzhak Shamir's terrorist Stern Gang, responsible for, in addition to other atrocities against Palestinians, the more famous bombing of the King David Hotel and assassination of the UN peace envoy Count Folke Bernadotte.
...Obama repeatedly pledged unconditional allegiance to Israel during his campaign, most memorably in an address to the AIPAC national convention which Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery characterized as "a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning", and America's electing a black president has always been more easily imagined than any American president's declaring his country's independence from Israeli domination.
...The profound loathing and hatred of the Muslim world toward the United States, which has always had its roots for America's unconditional support for the injustices inflicted and still being inflicted on the Palestinians, can fairly be considered the core of the primary foreign policy and "national security" problems confronting the United States in recent years. Why would Obama, a man of unquested brilliance, have chosen to send such a contemptuous message to the Muslim world with his first major appointment? Why would he wish to disabuse the Muslim world of its hopes (however modest) and slap it across the face at the ealiest opportunity? -
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hyperbola12 months ago
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A further contemptuous message is widely rumored to be forthcoming -- the naming as "Special Envoy for Middle East Peace" of Dennis Ross, the notorious Israel-Firster who, throughout the 12 years of the Bush the First and Clinton administrations, ensured that American policy toward the Palestinians did not deviate one millimeter from Israeli policy and that no progress toward peace could be made and who has since headed the AIPAC spin-off "think tank", the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...
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... it may well be salutary not to waste eight more days (let alone eight more years) playing along and playing the fool while more Palestinian lands are confiscated and more Jewish colonies and Jews-only bypass roads are built on them, clinging to the delusion that the charming Mr. Obama, admirable though he may be in so many other respects, will eventually (if only in a second term, when he no longer has to worry about reelection) see the light and do the right thing. It is long overdue for the Palestinians themselves to seize the initiative, to reset the agenda and to declare a new "only game in town".
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ADAGUY12 months ago
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This is no different than the efforts of the RNC and the GOP party leaders to blame Palin for their losing the election. I personally don't understand why they never learn from their mistakes. The GOP will continue to be a party of greed, and corruption, yet when they loose an election, they are always yelling "liberal media".
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dunkirk12 months ago
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OMG here we go again. The same routine by the Alpah Tomatoes as after 2006. Waaahhhhhhh they didnt publish our lies, Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh they didnt buy our spin Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh they didnt let us smear Obama. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh hes been President ELECT for almost a week and the proiblems hes idneitifed havent been fixd and the "liberal" media isnt exposing him as a fraud. Wahhhhhhhhh Wahhhhhhhhhh Wahhhhhhhhhhhh
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Tangent00112 months ago
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Of course, it could simply be a reflection that McCain was a worse candidate than Obama. McCain struggled to differentiate himself from the policies of Bush and caved to pressures from the neo-conservative ranks on several of his 'maverick' stances. In the final analysis, the McCain campaign was mostly about negative attacks and 'staying the course' rather than a new direction for the country. This is not only evident is his ads, but in campaign stump speeches delivered by both McCain and Palin. Lots of jingoism, lots of Obama attacks, nothing substantially new policy-wise.
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Palin was also a heavy drag on the ticket after the early novelty wore off. It became clear early on, Palin was merely window dressing meant to 'energize' Republicans and carve off a portion of Clinton supporters. When she failed to prepare for interviews and present herself as something truly serious, McCain's judgment came into question.
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pc2512 months ago
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http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/blog_entry/st...
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Election 2008: A Story Line Won Last Night, Not An Ideology-
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antibrainwasher12 months ago
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Not that the facts matter to right wing shills who can't think objectively, but 100% of all american media is corporate owned, and 100% is owned for profit, and 100% is conservative board controlled.
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NBC / General Electric/ Universal Studios. conservative corporate controlled, for profit. Joe Scaroborough, who was just fired today for saying the f word on air, was a republican congressman.
CBS / Westinghouse Corp conservative corporporate board controlled for profit.
News corp, largest media empire in the world, owned by the far right wing Rupurt Murdock, who invented tabloidism, owner of the Weekly Standard and WSJ. Far, far right wing.
ABC/ Disney....held and owned by a banking Cabal in Israel. Massive corporate structure, multi tiered conservative board controlled for profit.
Time Warner/ AOL/ Netscape/ Propeller. Conservative corporate controlled massive media for profit board controlled empire, cable tv programming and news.
Sinclair Media, Hard, hard right wing media empire controlling local broadcasts in both radio, newspapers, TV. Very religious, very conservative, owned by a billionaire republican.
99% republican controlled, 99% conservative, 100% board controlled, 100% for profit.
PBS...the chairman of PBS was the former Republican political director appointed by Bush.
You see, when you look at the facts, the house of cards blows away. The bile of posters comes from Rush or Hannity, who are told exactly what to say by their masters, the owners of the media empires. Murdock, who lost a 30% share of viewers, is becoming sick of Roger Alies and the right wing shills.
Please think. Please try and see the truth. Look it up online, and think for yourselves. Do you think the owners of these media empires want anything but more and more money, however they can make it. Its cut throat competitive business practice. THEY ARE SELLING YOU PROPANDA.
You conservatives are very good at making money, so why can't you follow the money on this topic of the false liberal media bias you keep talking about?
Its as if you have blinders, you can be logical up to a point, then some evangelical ideology based on hatred for objectivism or analysis kicks in, and you start shouting socalist or marxist or some other Mcarthyistic buzz word from the past.
Just think this through, and follow the trail of ownership. Roger Alies, the director of Fox News, look into his background. Read about the ownership of ABC and Eisner.
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RedRiverJ12 months ago
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PC you just don't understand, it was the news media's DUTY to get him elected! That way Chris Matthews would have a job. It's Matthew's "job to help make Obama a success!"
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Forget doing honest, factual reporting so people can have true facts to make informed decisions, he's got to make Obama a success at all costs.
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GWHayduke12 months ago
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The magical MEDIA is to blame.....not some kind of failed antiquated ideology supported by backpeddling fools who believe that invading Iraq was solid foreign policy.
Until you realize that the world is leaving you behind, you will continue to lose despite what the media prints or shows on the tube.
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tchef12 months ago
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Oh yes, it couldn't have had anything to do with the fact the your candidate offered nothing but what we have already seen in the last 8 years. And even if you went to his website the only things you found was why you shouldn't vote for Obama instead of why you should vote for McCain.
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RedRiverJ12 months ago
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
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After it's all over now they admit they all were in the tank for Obama......
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pc2512 months ago
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another story that received little attention as this one from a few days ago
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Bill Clinton: Obama Has “Political Instincts of a Chicago Thug”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128059/p...
Clinton also still hasn’t gotten over vote rigging he claimed he personally witnessed by the powerful Obama-endorsing Culinary Workers’ Union in Nevada.
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memestryker12 months ago
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RedRiverJ,
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When Palin was selected, CNN's Anderson Cooper said he had never heard of her, although she'd been mentioned months earlier as a possibility. I had immediately researched all the potential veeps as I heard about them--and I'm no Anderson Cooper. I sent him email and told him he and his team dropped the ball. And I've sent email to attack dog Chris Matthews for playing softball with his own personal favorites.
I also sent Brit Hume email when he had a "panel" of people who all agreed with him. That was pretty useless to hear all the "me, toos". I even sent O'Reilly email and asked him to shut up while opposing views were being shared so I could at least hear the people. He does seem a bit more self-controlled lately, so maybe a critical mass of people said something.
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Goppy12 months ago
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Sorry RedRiver .... your Liberal Media Propaganda won't work here. Propeller members are way too savvy for this. It astonishes me that you want to keep pushing this propaganda when no sane person on Propeller believes you.
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What, do you say this kind of stuff to convince yourself? Sorry, but we are not going to assist you in your delusion.
Here, check out this Chris Matthews clip where the roundtable extolls the heroic nature of John McCain. This was when the Mainstream Media was pushing for John McCain. The MSM was of a mind that said ... 'It's John's turn now ... he got screwed by Bush in 2000 ... now it's HIS turn.'
http://mediamatters.org/items/200611200001
If you don't want to view the clip, here are a few out-takes.
Chris Matthews even compares his heroic 'Maverick-ism' is so awesome, he compares him to Martin Luther!
Other comments on the clip...
He's a 'Reformer!"
He's a 'Smart Hawk!"
He's finding what's "PURE" in the Conservative Party!
He's got "Principles!"
He's got a "Core!"
He's a "Fighter Pilot"!
And this quaint line where a journalist admits to being biased!
"We journalists can't be unbiased when it comes to McCain! We just like him!
I especially love this quote spoken by Chris Matthews in the clip ... "I LOVE his office! It's the most ... it's ... like ... It is really a Senator's office out of a movie set!"
The fact is, the election was McCain's to lose --- which he did very, very well --- all on his own.
But of course, a hallmark of Republicanism is unaccountability. And this is just one more whining example from pc25 that proves this standard.
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mesodude12 months ago
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We're going to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine so cons won't be able to pollute our airwaves without a counterbalancing POV (which doesn't include O'Really shouting down guests with whom he disagrees). Cons, we told you this day was coming. You're going DOWN. ;-(
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Klarissa12 months ago
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But coverage of McCain has been heavily unfavorable—and has become more so over time. In the six weeks following the conventions through the final debate, unfavorable stories about McCain outweighed favorable ones by a factor of more than three to one—the most unfavorable of all four candidates—according to the study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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"The media coverage of the race for president has not so much cast Barack Obama in a favorable light as it has portrayed John McCain in a substantially negative one, according to a new study of the media since the two national political conventions ended.
For Obama during this period, just over a third of the stories were clearly positive in tone (36%), while a similar number (35%) were neutral or mixed. A smaller number (29%) were negative.
For McCain, by comparison, nearly six in ten of the stories studied were decidedly negative in nature (57%), while fewer than two in ten (14%) were positive. "
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memestryker12 months ago
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It's not journalism, K. There is little interest in reporting, unless it's something dirty on those with whom one disagrees. Sensationalism sells. Bottom line. Someone published a survey within the past couple of months that showed fully 75% of people employed in the media are left-leaning. It seems to attract them--they self-select.
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HarrisonPenn12 months ago
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If you print the news, and the news is negative, you print negative news.
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I have listened hard to both candidates. I found McCain to be very "charming," as a friend put it, but I also found him to convey messages of non-substance, and messages that, were he Obama, would have been immediately branded as "flip-flopped." Moroever, he himself had said he voted 90% with Bush.
He was nowhere as capable as Obama (or Hilary, for that matter), and, havingheard him louse up when speaking, and louse up in a particular way (pointing to meory or thought-issues), I began to fear his ability to lead, as well as earing his capacity to lead.
The pick of Palin was the coup de grace. It must be a reflection of judgment, or it points to cynicism, or desperation, or all of the above. (One could argue all one wants that it was Rove or the GOP who picked her, but where was McCain's judgment or integrity in going with Rove in the first place, or desperatel;y bowing unto pressure ot put in one of the most incompetent people Ever to be in a position to take the Helm?
Coupled with McCain's /Palin's propensity to make perosnal attacks rather than to intelligently address the issues?
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mesodude12 months ago
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"But coverage of McCain has been heavily unfavorable—and has become more so over time."
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--I think this only proves there is a price to be paid (politically and otherwise) for increasingly negative campaigning and McCain paid it. Why do you need studies to help you understand this? -
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JamesMarcus12 months ago
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Most publications have a least a slight bias, whatever they may claim. I'm always mentally correcting, depending on where the news is coming from. But if McCain had run a less shambolic, embarrassing campaign--if the tone of his concession speech had dominated the entire election cycle--he would have gotten better press. It's a hard to say something nice about a candidate who's praising his VP nominee's tenure on the PTA as a qualification for national service.
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hamy12 months ago
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memestryker12 months ago
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I think Huckabee would have tanked with moderates, and Romney was greeted with suspicion by the strongly religious of other religions and Christian sects.
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Grrr12 months ago
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What a bunch of hooey. We The People INSISTED, in spite of all the right leaning media's constant slandering of Obama, that he be our nominee and our president. The media tried to ram Clinton down our throats as a nominee, and we RAN OVER THEM WITH THE HOPE BUS. I repeat, overwhelming support from sectors of the population never represented by the MSM elected Obama IN SPITE of the media; plainly, simply, and obviously.
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Goppy12 months ago
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There ... this is how y'all exploit your Liberal Media Mantra.
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You know it's bogus ... you know it's a lie.
The fact is, to you Extremists, ALL media is too liberal ... because you have one agenda ... to push everything to the right ... to the far, extreme reaches of the right.
But your LIberal Media Whine serves an amazing array of other, cowardly purposes.
For instance, whenever YOUR candidate loses, you can blame the media. Cowardly, Ethically Hypocritical, Backward Looking, and of course, Morally Vacant.
Just like the ideology you extremists support.
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And for the record, there is no way ANY of the Right Wing candidates could have beaten Obama. McCain was the best shot.
Huckabee was Palin-light.
Romney was the very personification of what it means to be a FLIP-FLOPPER.
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Klarissa12 months ago
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Home :: blogs :: streetwise's blog
Election 2008: A Story Line Won Last Night, Not An Ideology
By streetwise - Posted on November 5th, 2008
Tagged: Op-Ed
First, congratulations to Barack Obama for his election to the presidency, and to Joe Biden as our incoming vice-president. . . .Barack Obama deserves the credit for creating such an effective narrative, and the MSM should also take a bow for promoting it so intensely. It was a truly masterful performance. Obama had the sense to move quickly to the center after he secured the nomination, putting lots of distance between himself and the divisive leftists whom he canoodled for so many months. The MSM put its fog machine into overdrive, hiding the implausibility of a conventional Chicago machine politician campaigning as a reformer.
Of course, story lines can not govern. We need to give President-elect Obama a chance to get established and put his Administration together, and then we will judge how it governs."-
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RedRiverJ12 months ago
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Don't forget George MEDIA MATTERS Soros.
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It will be interesting to see how Obama handles all the people when they call in all their favors. Far left people and more those more to the center that helped get him elected. Left will be angry if he does too much to please center and center will be mad if he pleases the left too much........this might be an interesting 4 years. -
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memestryker12 months ago
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Take a look at http://change.gov to see how Obama has already moved back to the left on some issues where he remained evasive or quiet on the campaign trail. Of course, the voters didn't pay close attention anyway, so they didn't even read the fine print on the campaign website (this one quotes it verbatim in some areas) that would have alerted them to some of his unspoken but major issues where he plans to aggressively push forward.
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Klarissa12 months ago
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Regardless of what the media did or didn't do, I think that our schools have failed in their mission to teach students civics.
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That includes looking at both sides, asking the same questions of candidates, and being aware of the tricks of propaganda.
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Klarissa12 months ago
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source- wikipedia
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Ad hominem
A Latin phrase which has come to mean attacking your opponent, as opposed to attacking their arguments.
Ad nauseam
This argument approach uses tireless repetition of an idea. An idea, especially a simple slogan, that is repeated enough times, may begin to be taken as the truth. This approach works best when media sources are limited and controlled by the propagator.
Appeal to authority
Appeals to authority cite prominent figures to support a position, idea, argument, or course of action.
Appeal to fear
Appeals to fear seek to build support by instilling anxieties and panic in the general population.
Appeal to prejudice
Using loaded or emotive terms to attach value or moral goodness to believing the proposition. For example, the phrase: "Any hard-working taxpayer would have to agree that those who do not work, and who do not support the community do not deserve the community's support through social assistance." -
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memestryker12 months ago
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I found this astounding. I didn't know civics had mostly been dropped in schools. We learned about rhetoric, yellow journalism and mudslinging, the branches of government, the electoral college, and a lot of others things that I've found useful over the years. It was required in middle school and high school when I was an inmate, and even elementary school had some basic teaching.
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Klarissa12 months ago
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I think that the Democrat campaign successfully used these methods:
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A Latin phrase which has come to mean attacking your opponent, as opposed to attacking their arguments.
Bandwagon and "inevitable-victory" appeals attempt to persuade the target audience to join in and take the course of action that "everyone else is taking."
Inevitable victory: invites those not already on the bandwagon to join those already on the road to certain victory. Those already or at least partially on the bandwagon are reassured that staying aboard is their best course of action.
Euphoria
The use of an event that generates euphoria or happiness, or using an appealing event to boost morale. Euphoria can be created by declaring a holiday, making luxury items available, or mounting a military parade with marching bands and patriotic messages.
Intentional vagueness
Generalities are deliberately vague so that the audience may supply its own interpretations. The intention is to move the audience by use of undefined phrases, without analyzing their validity or attempting to determine their reasonableness or application.
The intent is to cause people to draw their own interpretations rather than simply being presented with an explicit idea. In trying to "figure out" the propaganda, the audience forgoes judgment of the ideas presented.-
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memestryker12 months ago
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It was so obvious that I was actually surprised that so many who called themselves "highly-educated" didn't know. I remember bringing something from Obama's campaign website to the attention of two teachers, an engineer, and two college professors, and they didn't believe me! They all suggested he couldn't really hold that position. That was in September, and, as far as I know, they never looked.
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I was in a professional meeting Saturday, and one man was actually in tears as he shared with the room the emotion he was still feeling over the election. He actually assumed that everyone in the room had jumped on the bandwagon with him. I didn't bother to tell him I'm a Libertarian. It probably would have drawn gasps.
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pc2512 months ago
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http://penetratinginsights.blogtownhall.com/2008/1...
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Millions of Early Obama Voters Say Oops!
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Dionys12 months ago
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He probably could have run a very successful campaign if he hadn't sold out to the neo-con religious right nutjobs and thereby completely invalidated any hope he ever had of resting upon the 'maverick' status he actually held at one time.
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nostalgia12 months ago
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The McCain campaign was one of the most inept I have ever witnessed.
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Why do you think "anonymous" sources within that campaign are attacking Palin?
Who would want to hire campaign staff who did such an abysmal job? They need someone to blame the failure of the campaign on and Palin is an easy target. Their future careers are on the line. -
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Tangent00112 months ago
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I think you're putting the cart before the horse. McCain decided to run a negative campaign. His campaign manager said he wanted to make the election about image, rather than issues.
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The McCain camp wasn't offering any positive messages that differed from Bush policies. What was the media supposed to do?
Headline: "McCain Attacks Obama Yet Again, Isn't that Great?"
Headline: "McCain on Iraq: Stay the Course!"
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stephen-johnson12 months ago
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FTA:
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"But Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a teenager."
The question going forward is whether Obama will get tougher media scrutiny now that he's the president. Somehow I doubt it.-
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Tangent00112 months ago
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"The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a teenager."
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What were they supposed to do with that? Obama admitted it in his book. People only get in trouble when they refuse to own up to it. "I didn't inhale" is a case in point, as is Bush's coke use.
Rezko? Beating a dead horse is not journalism. BTW, I didn't see the media making a big deal out of the Keating Five, either.
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stephen-johnson12 months ago
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FTA:
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"But Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a teenager."
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lovemylibs12 months ago
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Except for the fact that Hillary Clinton herself claimed that she experienced a pro-Obama bias with the media. Remember the SNL skit about the pillow.
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Anyway, the pro-Obama bias was evident and expected.
Chris Matthews now views his job as a journalist to entail making Obama as successful as he can. As a journalist, his first repsonsibility should be to reporting facts.
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GutsyMSUSA12 months ago
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Exposing Obama's lack of fiscal experience,i.e.; running a corporation, balancing a huge budget, actually producing income, instead of acquiring it from social sources.....would have doing Americans a service...One in which now we will sadly just be pawns in the game of "Let's see if this works"..then hearing the big "oops"....
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All financial pundits say we are in for a really big financial disaster with Obama at the helm...and they say he should fire himself immediatley....Doesn't sound good....Now, arent you sorry you didnt report the "real story"....????-
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most_reasonable12 months ago
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We all remembered Bush's vaulted promise of experience as a Governor, and the ONLY candidate that ever ran a business (of course he ran it into the ground).
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jbgiraffx-8812 months ago
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Hey, GutsyMSUSA, you're an idiot. Mostly, the government doesn't "sell" anything to make a profit. They collect money, from "SOCIAL SOURCES", like you and me - it's called taxation. They say, "we want it," and we go to jail if they don't get it. How is that more like "running a corporation" than it is like running a multi-billion dollar campaign? Not only has McCain never run a corporation, his campaign didn't even collect as much money or run as efficiently as Obama's. As you're hero the Bush, when he ran corporations they failed. As Jay Leno would say, "Oh, Shut Up!"
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gerrywong12 months ago
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This is American Politics! It is definitely not democracy. Sadly, voters allow themselves to be manipulated by the retoric. In four years our Democratic congressional representatives will have received millions in lobbying money from bailed out companies. The middle class, who are doing their civic duty and spending less so they can pay more taxes so professional politicians can get re-elected because they took good care of the poor and themselves with our money, are going to wake up and blame Barak for not making any progress. He will take his payoffs like Clinton did and make big bucks as a retired president and the next guy will come along to dupe the voter.
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In the days of Tammany Hall, they called this kind of politics crooked. Today they call it Democracy and the media is giving an open forum to their "Reporters"....Or rather, new age apostles of manipulation. -
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memestryker12 months ago
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But Newsmax and Human Events sell themselves as conservative, so no one expects to get unbiased news. If I want to see in-your-face bias, I'll visit Daily Kos or Free Republic (I read everything I find time to read).
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People still expect reporting all sides of issues from WaPo, and are surprised when its strict bias is brought to their attention. I usually agree with their bias on most issues, but where I don't, it's strikingly obvious where they stand.
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djn3nunez312 months ago
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Yes! Yesss!! .... Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet.
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demshosingyou12 months ago
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From Wikipedia: Propaganda is aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.
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Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.
—Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion-
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memestryker12 months ago
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It doesn't seem biased when one agrees.
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I'm pro-second amendment, for example, and WaPo has printed biased stories based on bad data covering this issue on multiple occasions I can specifically think of off the top of my head. They simply didn't do their homework.
I'm also pro-first amendment, and they are much more likely to agree with my views on that issue, and it's obvious in which LTEs they choose to publish, which editorials they feature, and whose articles they print.
They've been called on it recently, so maybe they'll try to do a better job.
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memestryker12 months ago
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I know quite a few people who voted 3rd party, and it probably hurt McCain. He was in a difficult position--if he didn't go along with Bush, he would have been sidelined, but by trying to be a team player, he lost a lot of the anti-Bush crowd.
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