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 Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts....The Post was deficient in stories that reported more than the two candidates trading jabs; readers needed articles, going back to the primaries, comparing their positions with outside experts' views. There were no broad stories on energy or science policy, and there were few on religion issues....The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13...The project also calculated that in that time, 57 percent of the stories were about the horse race and 13 percent were about issues...June 9 until Nov. 2...One gaping hole in coverage involved Joe Biden, Obama's running mate. When Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, reporters were booking the next flight to Alaska. Some readers thought The Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected Biden. They are right; it was a serious omission."-At least they can admit it and allow a critique of their own but that is all I praise them for!!!

Will the Washington Post post this: Media mum on Obama chief of staff's political baggage-"Burchfiel points out that, thus far, there has been very little mention in the media about the connection between Emanuel and Freddie Mac. And BMI, he says, is concerned that the American public is not going be informed as much as they should be about the new president's cabinet and administration....Burchfiel says, in fact, since his successful run for the House of Representatives in 2002, Emanuel has been the beneficiary of more than $51,000 in campaign cash from Freddie Mac and its sister organization, Fannie Mae. The media watchdog has a problem with that."

Or what I reported on at Obama's Pick for Chief of Staff Tops Recipients of Wall Street Money and then also compare what I reported on and heard as a not so obvious answer see youtube video of ABC this week at Obama's tax plan changes to more like a Republican one? Also, Election coverage TV ratings in!!! and then see Emanuel Dodges Question on Postponing Income Tax Increases for the script and then see Washington Posts interpretation at Aide: Middle-Class Tax Cut a Priority: Emanuel Hints That Increase for Upper Incomes Also... " After watching that interview did you conclude that Emanuel hinted at that?? Maybe and maybe not you watch for yourself!!! So there you have two different articles from two different sources and can see a bias in each including myself. We will have to see which bias wins for the way Emanuel answered that question really left the door open which is different then Obama's campaign claims.

WaPo: Bush Pro-Life Regs “Onerous,” “Ideologically Offensive”-"“Controversial.” “Onerous.” “Ideologically offensive.” These are the words used by Washington Post reporters Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith to describe certain Bush administration regulations on mostly social issues, which they expect will be reversed quickly when President-elect Obama is inaugurated next year.
The Nov. 9 story, “Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions,” revealed that Obama is “now consulting with liberal advocacy groups” in order to create a hit list of “the most onerous or ideologically offensive” regulatory and policy initiatives of the Bush administration. Two of the top three initiatives identified in the Post’s story are pro-life: restrictions on funding of embryonic stem cell research and abortion. The third is global warming.
Connolly and Smith left no doubt as to their feelings on pro-life initiatives. Regulations “imposed” by President Bush include his “controversial” limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which “pleased religious conservatives.”
According to the story, Obama is also expected, “to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal.” This is the Mexico City Policy, a regulation put in place under President Reagan, rescinded by President Clinton and reinstituted by President George W. Bush. Post reporters used the word “reimposed” to describe Bush’s action. And for them it is only President Bush who operates from a partisan agenda."-And the Post doesn't!!!

Even a pro-choice feminist lefty can see the problem at: A Lefty Sees the Light-"Camille Paglia...her online column at Salon. Thanks to Hot Air...In the closing weeks of the election, however, I became increasingly disturbed by the mainstream media's avoidance of forthright dealing with several controversies that had been dogging Obama -- even as every flimsy rumor about Sarah Palin was being trumpeted as if it were engraved in stone on Mount Sinai. For example, I had thought for many months that the flap over Obama's birth certificate was a tempest in a teapot. But simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction . . .Given that Obama had served on a Chicago board with Ayers and approved funding of a leftist educational project sponsored by Ayers, one might think that the unrepentant Ayers-Dohrn couple might be of some interest to the national media. But no, reporters have been too busy playing mini-badminton with every random spitball about Sarah Palin, who has been subjected to an atrocious and at times delusional level of defamation merely because she has the temerity to hold pro-life views...."

Expect more bias from Big Media on the subject of same sex marriage

Networks promote Prop. 8 protesters-"Network coverage of the victory of California's Proposition 8 has focused principally on the supposed denial of rights to homosexuals, rather than the public affirmation that marriage is between a man and a woman...The networks covered Prop. 8 heavily between Nov. 5 and Nov. 9, the five days after Election Day. In a total of 13 network news stories, only four supporters of traditional marriage appeared on air, compared to 15 opponents. Only one story, a package aired on ABC's Nov. 9 Good Morning America, noted that Proposition 8 passed by a half-million votes....No network stories discussed the moral and societal implications of changing the definition of marriage, nor did the networks allow any supporters to provide a detailed defense of Proposition 8."

Other Political Media Bias

Media, McCain Ignored Key Issues-"Conservative values still resonate with the public. Obama ran to the right of McCain on social and fiscal issues, and the media ignored the contradictions to his record....The pundits are already at it, saying that conservatism is dead. But Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected in large part because they managed, in the face of all evidence, to run to the right of McCain-Palin.
Obama-Biden pretended they weren’t much different from social conservatives. In fact, they didn’t look much different from fiscal conservatives, either, and played the bogus “tax cut” card better than McCain. They got away with it for two reasons:
1) The McCain-Palin campaign was so busy being Democrat Lite “mavericks” that they refused to raise issues that would have given voters a stark moral choice.
2) The media were happy to ignore the disconnect between the Obama rhetoric and his radical policies and associates. They had the perfect excuse: If the McCain campaign doesn’t make an issue of these things, why should we?"

Late Night Comics’ Jabs Heavily Favored Obama-"Study finds that Leno and Letterman monologues made GOP ticket butt of jokes 7-1 over Democratic ticket."

ABC, NBC Repeat Anonymous Rumors Discrediting Palin-"No acknowledgement that McCain campaign staffers may be scrambling to hang the blame for his defeat on the vice-presidential nominee."