That "liberal" MSM ... not.
 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...62-503544.html

Links in the long article, plus tables, etc.

"Study find harsh media coverage for Obama"

President Obama "has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment" of all presidential candidates over the past five months, according to a study released Monday from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Pew found that Mr. Obama was the subject of negative assessments nearly four times as often as he was the subject of positive assessments.

It found he received "positive" coverage nine percent of the time, "neutral" coverage 57 percent of the time and "negative" coverage 34 percent of the time.

The study, which was conducted using a combination of "traditional media research methods [and] computer algorithms to track the level and tone of coverage," cuts against the widespread conservative claim that the "liberal media" aides Mr. Obama and other Democrats while attacking Republicans.

Pew says it looked at coverage from more than 11,500 news outlets, including local and national broadcasts, news websites and blogs.

Mr. Obama's negative coverage could be explained in part by the fact that he is "covered largely as president rather than a candidate," Pew said - and coverage of him is linked to the struggling economy.

Among the Republican presidential candidates, Pew found that Rick Perry has received the most positive coverage of all the candidates, with 32 percent positive coverage. He was followed by Sarah Palin (31 percent), Michele Bachmann (31 percent), Herman Cain (28 percent) and Mitt Romney (26 percent.) Palin, a vocal critic of the media, ultimately decided not to seek the GOP nomination.

Perry had the best ratio of any candidate, with 32 percent positive coverage to 20 percent negative coverage, a 12 percent net positive ratings in terms of coverage. He was followed by Palin (with 9 percent net positive coverage), Bachmann (8 percent net positive), Cain (5 percent net positive), Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman (both with 4 percent net positive coverage.) Pew found that Cain surged in positive coverage starting in late August - even before he did so in the polls.

The only candidate who received more negative coverage than Mr. Obama was Newt Gingrich, whom Pew found was the subject of negative coverage 35 percent of the time. That can be attrubited in part to his early stumbles, including his criticism of the House GOP Medicare plan and the decision by top staffers to abandom Gingrich's campaign. While Pew found that Mr. Obama received just nine percent positive coverage, however, Gingrich received 15 percent positive coverage.

The candidates with the worst coverage ratio were Mr. Obama (25 percent net negative coverage), Gingrich (20 percent net negative), Rick Santorum (3 percent net negative) and Mitt Romney (1 percent net negative.)

hell, i saw this news days ago. you're slipping.

No, I just posted it after watching some go crazy in anger over Obama both pulling the troops out of Iraq, and anger at Obama's not staying in Iraq.

Obama is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't. And by the same people, too, sometimes! :D

really, a president being screwed either way. who knew?

If you want to read something crazy, go read Herman Cain's position on abortion today ... :tro::D

not interested.

Herman Cain v Barrack Obama

Unban Nascar for the comdeic relief.

Okay, then block your eyes, spoiler alert:




"Abortions should be illegal. But, families have the right to choose".

So he came out in favor of families have the right to break the law and choose illegal abortions on Faux News today :D

This was playing, by the way, while the rest of the media was covering the Presidents announcement live about the ending of the war in Iraq.

Oh, yeah: and this tops Cain's public statement earlier this week, that his 999 plan really doesn't increase taxes on 84% of people, because he has a "secret fix" to his plan, that nobody knows about, that he was "keeping secret until he wanted to see if he was "attacked on his plan" by his fellow Republicans.

Cain doesn't want to be president, he's on a book tour. He's a joke.

:eek:

i'm just not interested because the fellow has no shot at the presidency imo, thus his views are unimportant.

He's less qualified than Caribou Barbie the Grifter, and that's saying something. That our mainstream media takes him seriously and discusses his nonsense, as does at least some small segment of our citizenry, is why Occupy Wall Street exists.

Don't worry, though: The Right is taking him down from within, as they are doing to Perry. Even Grover Norquist took Cain down yesterday.

it's probably because he sucks at his job

Well of course it's going to be bad. It's not bad enough for him or congress.

Romney will get the republican nomination and will win. He will be awful.