Funny how DJIA is tanking again after Obama elected

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Anonymous wrote:The Post's Ombudsman has agreed that its coverage of this campaign tilted heavily in favor of Obama.

Shocking I tell you, simply shocking!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post's Ombudsman has agreed that its coverage of this campaign tilted heavily in favor of Obama.

Shocking I tell you, simply shocking!

Wait a minute. The Ombudsman pointed out that Obama got more coverage and more favorable coverage. That does not mean the Post was unfair in its coverage.

*For instance, the greater number of Obama articles was, in part, due to the fact that the primary was very long for the Democrats and pretty short for the Republicans.

*As for McCain's larger number of negative pieces, can you honestly say that two candidates should get an equal number of negative stories, regardless of what they do? McCain was running at one point a 100% negative ad campaign, meaning he only ran attack ads for several months. What kind of positive press can you get when you do that?

*Also, the Ombudsman pointed out that several conservative columnists were not writing favorably about McCain. Is it because they are secret liberals? Or was it justly earned by McCain.

Bottom line - You can't say from the Ombudsman's article that McCain was treated unfairly. You can only say that the coverage of him was more negative. But then, that matches the opinions held by the people, as expressed in the polls and in the election.


Excerpt from Ombudsman follows:




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.

Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Reporters, photographers and editors found the candidacy of Obama, the first African American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic. Journalists love the new; McCain, 25 years older than Obama, was already well known and had more scars from his longer career in politics.

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.

McCain clinched the GOP nomination on March 4, three months before Obama won his. From June 4 to Election Day, the tally was Obama, 626 stories, and McCain, 584. Obama was on the front page 176 times, McCain, 144 times; 41 stories featured both.