Re: 2008 US Presidential Election Thread
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 9:25 pm
Sorry, but that's not a credible display, in my opinion. I'm seeing a lot of numbers and not a lot of sources or explanations as to how they were obtained.
And you can't exactly use them to back up your claims either, as you were speaking about "unfair statements against sarah[sic] palin[sic]" and you're showing charts that aren't covering that. They're measuring the positive and negative coverage of the media against the presidential candidates and political parties, not anything about statements against Palin.
And you can't use it to back up your statements about the media being biased either. The measure of positive, neutral, and negative coverage of a candidate and/or party does not necessarily reflect bias.
Fox News is so blatantly biased toward the right that it's almost impossible not to laugh at it sometimes. I'd say MSNBC is slightly left-leaning, but not awful. CNN seems to be pretty much in the middle.
I don't know what you're even talking about when you say Obama doesn't do well in interviews. Obama is excellent in interviews. He's an excellent public speaker, and he's an excellent personal speaker. He rarely trips up, and is very calm and logical when he's speaking to anyone.
I don't think anyone cares what papers Palin reads either. But the fact that she couldn't answer the question is appalling. And the whole thing about Putin flying over Alaska airspace that she said to Couric...she was just awful there.
I'm not necessarily for or against her beliefs, but she's not qualified to be one step away from the leader of this country. Regardless of her background, she's shown it throughout the campaign.
And I have to disagree with you on the newspapers as well. Very few papers are biased. The AP, which is the major source of all articles, is about as neutral as anything can get. The only bias you're going to find in newspapers is in the opinion or editorial sections, or in the commentary columns. As far as articles go, it's going to be unbiased.
Newspapers historically and presently are considered very unbiased. There's one reason behind it as well...they want to appeal to everyone. While a television or radio station may want to appeal to a certain crowd, newspapers need to appeal to everyone - diehard liberals, diehard conservatives, and everyone inbetween.
So I don't know where you get your news or the rest of your information, but it certainly doesn't seem to be rooted in much fact.
And you can't exactly use them to back up your claims either, as you were speaking about "unfair statements against sarah[sic] palin[sic]" and you're showing charts that aren't covering that. They're measuring the positive and negative coverage of the media against the presidential candidates and political parties, not anything about statements against Palin.
And you can't use it to back up your statements about the media being biased either. The measure of positive, neutral, and negative coverage of a candidate and/or party does not necessarily reflect bias.
Fox News is so blatantly biased toward the right that it's almost impossible not to laugh at it sometimes. I'd say MSNBC is slightly left-leaning, but not awful. CNN seems to be pretty much in the middle.
I don't know what you're even talking about when you say Obama doesn't do well in interviews. Obama is excellent in interviews. He's an excellent public speaker, and he's an excellent personal speaker. He rarely trips up, and is very calm and logical when he's speaking to anyone.
I don't think anyone cares what papers Palin reads either. But the fact that she couldn't answer the question is appalling. And the whole thing about Putin flying over Alaska airspace that she said to Couric...she was just awful there.
I'm not necessarily for or against her beliefs, but she's not qualified to be one step away from the leader of this country. Regardless of her background, she's shown it throughout the campaign.
And I have to disagree with you on the newspapers as well. Very few papers are biased. The AP, which is the major source of all articles, is about as neutral as anything can get. The only bias you're going to find in newspapers is in the opinion or editorial sections, or in the commentary columns. As far as articles go, it's going to be unbiased.
Newspapers historically and presently are considered very unbiased. There's one reason behind it as well...they want to appeal to everyone. While a television or radio station may want to appeal to a certain crowd, newspapers need to appeal to everyone - diehard liberals, diehard conservatives, and everyone inbetween.
So I don't know where you get your news or the rest of your information, but it certainly doesn't seem to be rooted in much fact.
