Is the World turning democrat?

Question

I'm so tired of all the Liberal nonsense in today's society. Especially with this upcoming 2008 election, even the media is all democratic it seems. The radio i listen to has even chose sides and really been out spoken about how good the Dem's are compared to the repubs, i thought the media was suppose to be neutral? What do you think? Am i right or do you disagree. Has the media chosen sides?

This is for discussion not pointless bickering, just a thought to bring up.

Answer 1

I hope not!

Answer 2

The world has been 'democratic' for a long time now. Not sure about US. There are still 43% of lunatics that called themselves republicans, that is anti-Democrats.

Answer 3

Obama's Margin of Victory: The Media

How Barack Obama Could Not Have Won the Democratic Nomination Without

ABC, CBS and NBC

It was the closest nomination contest in a generation, with just one-

tenth of a percentage point -- 41,622 votes out of more than 35

million cast -- separating Barack Obama from Hillary Clinton when the

Democratic primaries ended in June. Obama's margin among elected

delegates was almost as thin, just 51 to 48 percent.

But Barack Obama had a crucial advantage over his rivals this year:

the support of the national media, especially the three broadcast

networks. At every step of his national political career, network

reporters showered the Illinois Senator with glowing media coverage,

building him up as a political celebrity and exhibiting little

interest in investigating his past associations or exploring the

controversies that could have threatened his campaign.

These are the key findings of the Media Research Center's exhaustive

analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage of Barack Obama --

every story, every soundbite, every mention --from his first

appearance on a network broadcast in May 2000 through the end of the

Democratic primaries in June 2008, a total of 1,365 stories. MRC

analysts found that the networks' coverage -- particularly prior to

the formal start of Obama's presidential campaign -- bordered on

giddy celebration of a political "rock star" rather than objective

news gathering.

Key Findings:

# The three broadcast networks treated Obama to nearly seven times

more good press than bad -- 462 positive stories (34% of the total),

compared with only 70 stories (just 5%) that were critical.

# NBC Nightly News was the most lopsided, with 179 pro-Obama reports

(37%), more than ten times the number of anti-Obama stories (17, or

3%). The CBS Evening News was nearly as skewed, with 156 stories spun

in favor of Obama (38%), compared to a mere 21 anti-Obama reports

(5%). ABC's World News was the least slanted, but still tilted

roughly four-to-one in Obama's favor (127 stories to 32, or 27% to 7%).

# Barack Obama received his best press when it mattered most, as he

debuted on the national scene. All of the networks lavished him with

praise when he was keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic Convention,

and did not produce a single negative story about Obama (out of 81

total reports) prior to the start of his presidential campaign in

early 2007.

# The networks downplayed or ignored major Obama gaffes and scandals.

Obama's relationship with convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko was

the subject of only two full reports (one each on ABC and NBC) and

mentioned in just 15 other stories. CBS and NBC also initially

downplayed controversial statements from Obama's longtime pastor

Jeremiah Wright, but heavily praised Obama's March 18 speech on race relations.

# While Obama's worst media coverage came during the weeks leading up

to the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, even then the networks

offered two positive stories for every one that carried a negative

spin (21% to 9%). Obama's best press of the year came after he won

the North Carolina primary on May 6 -- after that, 43 percent of

stories were favorable to Obama, compared to just one percent that

were critical.

# The networks minimized Obama's liberal ideology, only referring to

him as a "liberal" 14 times in four years. In contrast, reporters

found twice as many occasions (29) to refer to Obama as either a

"rock star," "rising star" or "superstar" during the same period.

# In covering the campaign, network reporters highlighted voters who

offered favorable opinions about Obama. Of 147 average citizens who

expressed an on-camera opinion about Obama, 114 (78%) were pro-Obama,

compared to just 28 (19%) that had a negative view, with the

remaining five offering a mixed opinion.

Perhaps if he had faced serious journalistic scrutiny instead of

media cheerleading, Barack Obama might still have won his party's

nomination. But the tremendously positive coverage that the networks

bestowed upon his campaign was of incalculable value. The early

celebrity coverage helped make Obama a nationally-known figure with a

near-perfect media image. The protectiveness that reporters showed

during the early primaries made it difficult for his rivals to

effectively criticize him. And when it came to controversies such as

the Wright affair, network reporters acted more as defenders than as

journalists in an adversarial relationship. If the media did not

actually win the Democratic nomination for Barack Obama, they surely

made it a whole lot easier.

Answer 4

I am tired of the liberal bs in the US myself. But I honestly think there are more conservatives than there are liberals. The liberal main stream media would like us to think that. Main stream media is bias and clearly doesn't give fair and balanced views on candidates or any issue for that matter.

McCain/Palin 08

Answer 5

They polled the media a few years ago, and yes over 90% were admittedly liberal.  Same thing with the universities.  I don't think the media even tries to be neutral anymore because they are so desperate to affect the thinking of the young and the mindless.

Answer 6

god I hope not

If it did them me and millions of others can rally in our trucks and pollute the environment.

Answer 7

I hope so, but yes, most media is liberal backed, however the one channel that continues to show a conservative slant is fox news, maybe you should watch that.

Answer 8

The media has always been biased.

They are just louder and more obnoxious now than they used to be.

Answer 9

Loons... their all loons!

Answer 10

The world is jealous of United Sates and they love to se a weak leader, who would end U.S's reign as a superpower. That's why they are orgazmic about Obama.