Shocker: Media Gives More Positive Coverage To Democrats Than Republicans
There are so many studies indicating this exact same result that they’re almost not even worth acknowledging any more. Everyone knows the media slants left, even if the media itself (and their liberal friends) won’t admit it, so is it even worth pointing out any more?
I think that it probably is. There are still a lot of people out there who allow themselves to be spoon-fed their news. The more people learn to take all reporting with the proverbial “grain of salt” the better.
Anyway, the latest study is from George Mason University:
Mr. Obama has received not only more press but also better press than his immediate predecessors. On the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news, fifty-eight percent of all evaluations of the president and his policies have been favorable, and 42 percent were unfavorable. CMPA’s previous studies of network news found that George W. Bush received only 33 percent positive evaluations by sources and reporters during the first 50 days of his administration in 2001, and Bill Clinton received only 44 percent positive evaluations during his first ten weeks (70 days) in office in 1993.
It may seem like Bill Clinton’s number is really low given that a) he’s a Democrat too and b) the media was pretty much in the tank for him too. But remember that Clinton got off to a notoriously bad start in his first days in office, including the Waco fiasco.
But it is amazing just how in the tank for Obama it is. I think we start to take it for granted after a while, because it’s so pervasive, but every once in a while it’s worth taking a step back realizing just how bad it really is.
