With the Republican and Democratic conventions over, and Mitt Romney and Barack Obama back on the campaign trail, an expert gives OneNewsNow a comparative analysis on how the media covered both political gatherings.
Media researchers claim a stark contrast between the way the mainstream media covered the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, and last week's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Media Research Center (MRC) notes that "a day after CNN salivated over Michelle Obama's DNC address, ABC hyped the enthusiasm at the Democratic convention as hitting unprecedented levels on Wednesday night."
Tim Graham, MRC's director of media analysis, witnessed excessive exaggeration regarding the reporting on the DNC.
"The coverage of every speech is 'superb.' Every utterance is 'resonating,'" he details. "There's no worry about how something might hurt the Democrats."
Graham especially notes the graciousness the media showed toward former President Bill Clinton following his speech Thursday night. He says the way the media's handling of the address gives the Democratic Party a distinct advantage in attracting undecided voters.
"The media wasn't telling me that this was the man who had committed all of the offenses and scandals that he's committed, with the lying under oath, the having sex with interns in the White House … extreme disparagement of the special counsel investigating him -- all that gets left by the wayside," the analyst laments.
"Just the way that this Democratic Convention can present [the late Senator] Ted Kennedy as a hero to women, they're going to present Bill Clinton as a hero to women -- the massive exclusion of evidence that that requires."
Graham contends the mainstream media so desperately wants to get Obama re-elected to a second term that they ignored the facts about how Clinton "disgraced the presidency."