Washington official meeting off record with the press at special dinners. Nothing wrong with this at all. What is wrong is the MainStreamMedias coverage of Obama. The MSM elected themselves a president and now they can not allow him to fail. This is why you heard nothing about the Tea Party Rallies until April 15th when 700 cities across the country held rallies and at last count the attendance was up to 500,000. The MSM made fun of them by referring to them with the lewd slang “tea bagging” and “tea baggers”. The White House announce that President Obama was “unaware” of the Tea Party rallies.
Another thing you haven’t heard from the MSM is that there are now 30 states whose legislatures have signed into law or are preparing to address the Constitutional Articles 9 and 10 that has to do with state sovereignty. The states claim truthfully that the federal government has broken these laws again and again and are becoming increasingly aggressive in taking over states rights under President Obama. (refer to my previous blog Audio: Alaska, Israel, and Their Struggle for Sovereignty–Interesting! ). See the figures below on the favorable press coverage given Obama and who is doing it. BB
At These Dinners, Candor Is The Entree
Boosting Obama
The networks have given President Obama more coverage than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined in their first months — and more positive assessments to boot.
In a study to be released today, the Center for Media and Public Affairs and Chapman University found the nightly newscasts devoting nearly 28 hours to Obama’s presidency in the first 50 days. (Bush, by contrast, got nearly eight hours.) Fifty-eight percent of the Obama evaluations were positive on the ABC, CBS and NBC broadcasts, compared with 33 percent positive in the comparable period of Bush’s tenure and 44 percent positive for Clinton. (Evaluations by officials from the administration or political parties were not counted.)
On Fox News, by contrast, only 13 percent of the assessments of Obama were positive on the first half of Bret Baier’s “Special Report,” which most resembles a newscast. The president got far better treatment in the New York Times, where 73 percent of the assessments in front-page pieces were positive.
A striking contrast: Obama’s personal qualities drew more favorable coverage than his policies, with 32 percent of the sound bites positive on CBS, 31 percent positive on NBC and 8 percent positive on Fox.
Footnote: Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, for his part, gives White House reporters “a strong A,” telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that they ask “tough questions each and every day.”
