corner.nationalreview.com - 11/8/2008
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From the Washington Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, in an article headlined "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage":
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat ...
nypost.com - 11/1/2008
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nypost.com —
Last updated: 12:23 pm November 1, 2008 Posted:
12:09 pm November 1, 2008 It's hard to believe...
that just four years ago, some were talking about Barack Obama as a national savior, a secular redeemer, a "light worker." Even more shocking, President ...
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OBAMA 2012: FOUR YEARS LATER - New York Post
corner.nationalreview.com - 11/8/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
We have seen it all the last two
years: Weeping journalists on election night; a journalist openly...
promising to help make Obama successful ("Yeah, it is my job."); film takes of journalists cheering an Obama speech; the savaging of Sarah Palin and ...
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hotair.com - 11/8/2008
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hotair.com —
We have all complained about the pro-Obama tilt
in this election cycle. News media consistently gave John...
McCain much harsher treatment while refusing to perform the same kind of investigative journalism on Barack Obama, whose thin track record and ...
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... … now that the election is over (via Byron York at The Corner ): The [Washington] Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts. My assistant, Jean Hwang, and I have been examining Post coverage since Nov. 11 last year on issues, voters, fundraising, the candidates’ backgrounds and horse-race stories on tactics, strategy and consultants. We also have looked ...
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... To me and many others who expected American elite media to cover the race reasonably fair Howell’s column comes too late, and is especially too little to restore confidence in the Washington Post and other major newspapers. It will take them many months, hard work, and objective reporting to regain the trust and respect they once had. ...
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