I think this article is a big disingenuous when it says: But when the broadcasters voiced opinions about Mr. Obama, 72 percent of the comments were negative and 28 percent were positive.
By contrast, the study said, when they voiced opinions about Mr. McCain, 57 percent were negative while 43 percent were positive.

What it doesn’t say is how often the broadcasters voiced opinions. I watch CNN a LOT and the news coverage has been heavily in favor of Obama.

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.
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This particular villain is usually brought out in the fall, when one of the presidential candidates is feeling desperate and needs to blame someone else for what looks like a losing campaign.

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.

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So we seem to have a new phenomenon here in modern presidential politics — the specter of dueling media darlings. Both candidates say that the media is fawning over the other guy, protecting the other guy, elevating the other guy. The campaign is increasingly taking on the air of a Smothers Brothers routine, in which both camps complain that, “Mom always liked you best.”

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