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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]Oh, I quite agree that it is perfectly fair, but that standard does not seem to me to be applied even-handedly.  I've never seen the media take a deep dive into what, specifically, President Obama did during his years as a "community organizer," although perhaps I have missed it.  And certainly Obama's utter lack of qualifications was glossed over in 2008.  My prediction:  we are going to hear way more about Bain Capital this year than about anything President Obama did before his election in 2008.  But I quite agree Romney's business record is fair game.[/quote]
Give the breadth of media outlets available, I think global media fairness is now in the eye of the beholder. IIRC, 40% of people get their new from Faux, so "the media" refers to Faux more than anything else. The media landscape therefore looks like this, from largest to smallest:
1) Faux, a propaganda outlet. In-house partisans work with Reps to generate stories.
2) The "unbiased" outlets, collectively - a close second. Rarely address substance, but report on others making substantive statements. I.e., outlets for the most effective partisan communicators, including Faux itself.
3) Far behind, all of the small partisan outlets on either side.

As we all know, there was plenty of discussion about Obama's minister and a guy he shook hands with once. I hope that no one would contend that Faux declined to explore Obama's record as a community organizer out of some sense of propriety. To the degree that Faux didn't cover it, I assume it was b/c there was not even enough there for them to make a teapot tempest out of, and that's a very low bar.

I think we can confidently predict that Faux will discuss Bain only in the context of defending it and complaining about Democrat class warfare and anti-capitalism. The mainstream outlets will discuss it to the degree that the Dems effectively make it a story. Then you'll have minor players like MSNBC and others on either side.

I agree that strangely little was said about Obama's lack of experience, but I find the failure to cover many things very strange. Most of that failure is explained by the factor I mentioned above of the mainstream media just providing a minimal filter of press releases. Since the Dems wouldn't talk about his inexperience, it was up to Faux and the Reps, and for whatever reason (and I'm sure it was very carefully considered and focus-grouped) they decided to focus on other things. It may have been because they didn't want to emphasize age when their guy was an old coot.[/quote]

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