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October 31st 2008     

Watcher’s Winners – Media Bashing Edition

Posted by: Laer at 07:08 am

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t was a bad week for the media in the Watcher of Weasels’ weekly electronic ballot box of the best of the blogs. The two winners covered the same topic – the extent and the “why” of bias in this campaign – and their takes were very similar. Nonetheless, I voted for them #1 and #2, and that’s how they turned out:

My post, Is A Barack Win Predestined?, which didn’t deal with the media, tied for third place with Colossus of Rhodey’s We’re Tired of It already, which did.

On the non-Council side, things were a bit more wide open, with:

Iowahawk, as usual, is a hoot – this time attacking the “margin of error” in polls. WoC is much too gleeful about the shaky condition of the media for me; still it’s a good economic analysis of what newspapers face. Myself, I don’t want to see them die; I want them to adapt and improve.

For all the winners, see the Watcher, who as is his wont, has added some terrific commentary around the entries.

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With Obama winning the presidency by seven percent, we can't blame the media. Their laudatory coverage and refusal to extensively probe into Obama's background and [lack of] experience was at best responsible for five percent of his vote, the pundits tell us. Here is a compilation of over 100 significant instances of pro-Obama/anti-McCain bias during the 2008 campaign.

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