Poll: News media biased for Obama

While, furthermore, a full 13% had no clue what "biased" means. Thirteen percent? OMG! And these people are voting! Often tipping the scales in close elections!

"...71 percent of the respondents said reporters "try to help the candidate they want to win" ... And newspaper and TV network news managers wonder why people are leaving them in droves.

I laugh at the media a lot. I notice the photos, in my editorial opinion, of candidates such as Senator McCain are never as full of color, are taken from positions to make his age look bad, photos of McCain are taken at angles which make him appear smaller than life. While those of Senator Obama are clear, bright color,background of flags etc., from angles which make Senator Obama larger than life, show him to be much like former President Kennedy with same likeness edit. Would media keep news from the public, yes. This is for all political powerful. For Senator Obama, it is for the war against those of us who are not media. Would the media print/publish/broadcast rumor after rumor against they not in favor by themselves, yes. Would they retract those rumors, perhaps, on page 32 in 35 words or less.

And in other news, ice is cold and fire is hot.

Apropos of sweetolebob2007 below, has anyone at the Washington Times counted, in the Washington Times, the frequency of appearance Obama versus McCain photos used with "duel candidate" articles such as this one? I would guess the proportion falls pretty much in line with the overall media's unbalanced proportions.

Even the photo for this story (possibly picked for the editorial comment of the article), portrays Obama with a halo. The media truly thinks he is a savior.

Well, it has become clear to me, someone who has been voting in presidential elections for 30 years, that this election is unique. We the people are being TOLD who we are going to get as president for the next four years, and we are going to have to like it. The word "audacity" seems to be the word of the day, not just for the candidacy of B.O., but for the character of this entire election, from the primaries to the press, from the lack of substance in the speeches and policies to the way race and prejudice are being used to manipulate the argument. The only solution is to vote for McCain, if for no other reason than to try to restore some balance in this election and to show the world that money, manipulation, and the use of the free press as political propaganda needs to end.

Recent media polls show 80% of journalists are registered Democrats. There is an obvious bias...but I don't expect anything to change. The media and Obama were hand in hand while declaring that the war in Iraq is lost and the surge will not work....I do not expect a retraction of those statements from either of them. Rush Limbaugh was correct in describing them as the "Drive By Media". They fly through flinging garbage and then move on with no followup. They sit in the Green Zone and report that Iraq is lost. CBS even removed their Baghdad correspondent after the news from Iraq improved. As for the economy, the media continuously ranted that there is a housing bubble in need of correction... when the correction takes place, they start an economic panic though dips in the economy are necessary to reign in overinflated sectors. We saw this in the Savings ad Loan problem of the 80's and the .com problem of the 90's. In the bursting of the "dot com bubble", the media tried to protect the Clinton legacy and blame the economy on Bush and the Republicans. I could go on, but it will make no difference. The Dems blame everything on Bush...The media blames everything on Fox News...Democratic presidential candidates blame everything on the Right Wing Radio Shows, etc...In the end, the American people suffer.

How does the article make any sense that the media is biased toward Obama, when McCain has made gaffe after gaffe and the media has not reported most of them, but Obama can pass gas and they will report it and act like he killed the Pope. It's an out and out lie, McCain was so stupid to challenge Obama to go to Iraq and then when he does, he whine like his Economic adviser said we Americans are doing because the economy is so bad and we are just a bunch of whiners. When the media report all these gaffes McCain has made and ignore Obama's then McCain could perhaps complain.

The world is a grand illusion; there's but one reality: the first person singular "I". How do I know this? How else do I explain the media bias I clearly perceive as tilting to McCain being seen by others as favoring Obama?