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The media pull out all the stops to reelect the president.
Oct 15, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 05 By FRED BARNES
The Time cover story last week was headlined The Mormon Identity. The cover, featuring Mitt Romney in a stained-glass window, said in smaller type, What Mitt Romneys faith tells us about his vision and values. Newsweek had President Obama on the cover, identifying him as The Democrats Reagan and heralding the story inside as What Obama Will Achieve in His Second Term.
Neither of the stories, to put it mildly, was helpful to Romneys presidential campaign. The piece in Time was fair, but the timing, long after Mormonism had faded as a factor in the election, was suspect. In Newsweek, Obama was lionized, while Romney and Republicans were treated like hyperpartisan right-wingers.
My point in citing the newsmagazines is not that theyre colluding to reelect Obama. They dont have to. It comes quite naturally to these pillars of the mainstream media to elevate issues with a pro-Obama tilt. And theyre not even the biggest contributors to the liberal bias that has dominated media coverage of the presidential race.
The bias has been so massive, palpable, and unprecedented that the scales have begun to fall from the eyes of a few stalwarts of the media establishment. Obama, Mark Halperin of Time noted last week, has been covered as a candidate, rather than as an incumbent whose record needs to be scrutinized. As you might suspect, this coincides neatly with the presidents reelection strategy.
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The media pull out all the stops to reelect the president.
Oct 15, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 05 By FRED BARNES
The Time cover story last week was headlined The Mormon Identity. The cover, featuring Mitt Romney in a stained-glass window, said in smaller type, What Mitt Romneys faith tells us about his vision and values. Newsweek had President Obama on the cover, identifying him as The Democrats Reagan and heralding the story inside as What Obama Will Achieve in His Second Term.
Neither of the stories, to put it mildly, was helpful to Romneys presidential campaign. The piece in Time was fair, but the timing, long after Mormonism had faded as a factor in the election, was suspect. In Newsweek, Obama was lionized, while Romney and Republicans were treated like hyperpartisan right-wingers.
My point in citing the newsmagazines is not that theyre colluding to reelect Obama. They dont have to. It comes quite naturally to these pillars of the mainstream media to elevate issues with a pro-Obama tilt. And theyre not even the biggest contributors to the liberal bias that has dominated media coverage of the presidential race.
The bias has been so massive, palpable, and unprecedented that the scales have begun to fall from the eyes of a few stalwarts of the media establishment. Obama, Mark Halperin of Time noted last week, has been covered as a candidate, rather than as an incumbent whose record needs to be scrutinized. As you might suspect, this coincides neatly with the presidents reelection strategy.
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