I told my wife (and I think I posted here) that the media gave John Kerry 15 points. Without the media backing him he’d have lost even more dismally. But Newsweek’s Evan Thomas says Bush Endures Media Hostility from Blue State Media and tends to prove my theory right. This is written up on the Media Research Center site.
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas contended on Wednesday’s Hardball that President Bush suffered from media bias against him since “most” of Thomas’s colleagues in the media “don’t like Bush and they do like Kerry” and he “can’t believe that doesn’t affect” coverage. He also asserted, from NBC’s “Democracy Plaza” in Manhattan, that “the mainstream media” are out of touch “with most of America. I mean there is a red-blue divide. And most of the media types live in the blue part. They live right here.”
On Inside Washington in July, Thomas, the Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, acknowledged that the media “want Kerry to win” and “that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points” for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. Then in mid-October he reaffirmed his belief that most reporters “absolutely” want Kerry to win, but on CNN’s Reliable Sources he argued that his 15 point estimation was a “stupid thing to say.” When host Howard Kurtz wondered if it is worth five points, Thomas acceded, “maybe.”
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I think in Canada the media give a lot more than a mere 15 percent to the liberal-left candidates and parties. A lot more. In the last election, I’d say more like 30 percent. And still the Conservatives did reasonably well considering the odds stacked up against them.
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