A conservative media watchdog says looking back on the 2008 presidential election campaign, there is little doubt that the liberal establishment media played a major role in Barack Obama's victory.
Rich Noyes, director of research at the Media Research Center, believes what is going to be remarkable when people look back at the 2008 presidential election is how the media had an absence of criticism and an absence of skepticism for Obama, who was the frontrunner for most of the campaign. He notes that Obama received tremendously positive coverage. "We charted during the primaries at seven-to-one. He received fawning tribute from reporters who were supposed to be reporting the news and holding both sides accountable, and he was held up as a civil rights icon as opposed to a flesh-and-blood candidate. This gave him a huge advantage as he pursued his campaign over, first, Hillary Clinton and then John McCain," he contends. "And given the closeness of the primaries, it almost certainly made the difference in him getting the nomination. I'm not sure, given the tenor of times, that any Democrat wouldn't have had the advantage in the general election, but certainly the media did nothing to hamper him on the way to the White House." Noyes also expects Obama to have a longer "honeymoon period" with the media than most incoming presidents.
Rich Noyes, director of research at the Media Research Center, believes what is going to be remarkable when people look back at the 2008 presidential election is how the media had an absence of criticism and an absence of skepticism for Obama, who was the frontrunner for most of the campaign. He notes that Obama received tremendously positive coverage. "We charted during the primaries at seven-to-one. He received fawning tribute from reporters who were supposed to be reporting the news and holding both sides accountable, and he was held up as a civil rights icon as opposed to a flesh-and-blood candidate. This gave him a huge advantage as he pursued his campaign over, first, Hillary Clinton and then John McCain," he contends.
"And given the closeness of the primaries, it almost certainly made the difference in him getting the nomination. I'm not sure, given the tenor of times, that any Democrat wouldn't have had the advantage in the general election, but certainly the media did nothing to hamper him on the way to the White House." Noyes also expects Obama to have a longer "honeymoon period" with the media than most incoming presidents.
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