Main Stream Media bias? I searched Google News for the winner of each primary or caucus. I specifically used the following terms. The first number in parentheses is "about" how many results were found. For comparison, the second figure is the number of delegates won by the candidate (according to CNN).
Of the three states Romney won, he received the most coverage for his win in Michigan, about 1,239 stories, where he earned 24 delegates. In contrast, McCain earned only 7 delegates in New Hampshire but enjoyed the publicity from 5,145 news stories.
To look at this another way, the most stories written about any of Romney's three wins was 1,239 for Michigan while the fewest stories written about any of his opponents' wins was 2,365 for Huckabee's win in Iowa.
If Romney were to receive the same coverage for his primary/caucus wins, it's reasonable to believe he would enjoy the frontrunner status that many in the press are giving to McCain today (the facts to the contrary).
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Too bad we don't know whether these skewed reporting numbers reflect a total negative bias by (a) editors, or (b) journalists, or (c) both. Theoretically, it's POSSIBLE that journalists were covering the Republican race fairly and all the fair reports were either spiked by the editor or revised beyond recognition.
My money is on journalists who are told by editors "Cover this, in this way" and if the editors don't like the work product by the journalist, they revise it to suit their own preconception.
Why don't we just do away with the unpredictable, messy election by real voters, and have a super caucus of editors and journalists?
Their slanted reporting of actual wins shows they have the arrogance to ignore actual Primaries or Caucuses held and actual votes cast.
Nice work. It's rare I see a novel way such as this to review this sort of bias. Wyoming and Nevada make a bit of sense, but Michigan was an important state and this sort of coverage is bizarre.
I wonder if they continue with the biases when Romney becomes President, he's going to be all over the news and the MSM will follow him everywhere! ...and scandal hungry too!
The point is that the Media Hags don't want Romney to win the nomination. They are afraid that if he wins the nomination, he will beat Hillary, and the media doesn't want that. They want four more years of Billary. That is also why they are turning a blind eye to how the Clinton Machine is trying to destroy Obama.
As far as McCain goes, even the Republican pundits want him. It's probably because he has paid his dues being in the Senate for the past 90 years. That's how Dole got the nomination in 1996. Dole didn't do very well, and neither will McCain. Unfortunately, The Republican establishment Media Hags are jumping on the lame horse and ignoring McCain's record of backstabbing the current president.
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