According to an article on the Pew Research Center, voters believe that journalists want Obama to win this years election. They say that every year voters feel that the media favors the Democratic Party over the Republican, but this year it's by a margin of 70%-9%. This is a rather large difference from previous elections.
Keeping this thought in mind, another article from the Pew Research Center says that John McCain has been getting rather negative coverage from the media as opposed to Obama who seems to receive more positive coverage than negative.
Are these two articles really true, that the media is clearly favoring Obama in this election? Or could they just be fairly one sided? Who knows.
We would like to believe that journalists keep their political views out of their writing, especially when it comes to hard news. The notion of objectivity is not always as easy as it sounds, but journalists have an obligation to give people the facts, not opinions, when it comes to news.
It is very interesting, however, that every year since at least 1992, the public voters believe that the media favors the Democratic candidate over the Republican. Obviously if voters believe that journalists are not doing their job when it comes to giving people the hard facts, sans opinion.
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I believe that the media has favored Obama just because of all the coverage done on him. I think it is the media's job to cover the two opposing sides of a story, but I do not think this has been the case so far.
Yeah I kind of agree the media wants Obama to win. There's nothing wrong with them having a liking for him, but they aren't doing their job correctly.
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