Bias: It's hard to see how press coverage of President Obama's
re-election bid could have gotten any more biased, but a new report
shows the media managed to outdo themselves the week before voters went
to the polls.
The Pew Research Center's latest analysis puts hard numbers against
the claim that the press went out of its way to get Obama re-elected.
According to the report, after months of positive press, "Obama's
coverage improved dramatically" in the crucial final week of the
campaign.
In fact, 29% of the stories about Obama that week were positive and
just 19% were negative. At the same time, a third of the stories about
Mitt Romney were negative, and just 16% were positive.
When it comes to bias, MSNBC is in a league of its own, Pew found. It
ran zero negative stories about Obama and zero positive stories about
Romney in that last week.
Not only did Obama's overall coverage improve dramatically, he got
far more of it. Pew found that in the last week, 80% of campaign stories
featured Obama, compared with 62% for Romney.
"Romney may have suffered in (the) final days from the press focusing
less on him relative to his opponent," the researchers concluded. (Continues)
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