A Media Backlash Coming for Obama?
Tom Maguire believes that the love fest between the media and Barack Obama may come to an end… at least for now. The reasons: they were called out for being incredibly subjective and they were wrong in their predictions. If the media, Maguire argues, want to convince the public that they’re at least somewhat reliable, they’ll have to go reasonably negative on Obama… at least, that’s what Maguire thinks the media think.
It seems to me that Maguire’s theory – or “bold prediction” as he calls it – could very well be right. In fact as McQ points out at QandO, the backlash seems to be here already… to a degree at least. Hot Air’s Bryan also agrees that it’s likely that we will see “much more skeptical coverage of Obama.”
On the other hand, one has to wonder whether ‘journalists’ (and I use this term loosely) can distance themselves a bit from Obama now. They’re rooted so passionately for him, that I think it’ll be difficult for them to become more objective all of a sudden. On the other hand, if there’s one thing these people care about it’s ratings, and if they’re too obviously biased, they’ll lose viewers, listeners and readers.
Whatever the case I’ve learned one thing from the first American presidential elections I’m covering and that’s that American media, well, that American media can’t exactly be trusted. They’re hyping everything, they’re exaggerating a loss, they’re exaggerating the significance of a win, and – above all – they love to speculate but don’t know anything.
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Do you think it’s because it (Obama) is the story they want so they have a willingness to help create it ?
yes.
All I ask is that they look at his record and ask tough questions. They do it to all of them but the perception and I believe is the truth is that they have given Obama a pass.
Yet if you look at everything, anything you will see he is as far left as they come. He is a progressive and as Ive seen touted at other sites it is the progressive agenda that is battling with the old guard Democratic apparatus that is at stake here.
It is more then just this nation at stake. It is the future of the Democratic party because the far left progressives have staked a claim on his soul and are trying to ride him to the White House without having to discuss their radical and bankrupting fiscal and social policies.
So often I have heard that the GOP is in disarray and yet I believe that the Democratic party is in even more disarray then is the GOP. We have our own demons and our own fringe groups that want to take control of this party.
I am left but even I want to include those on the right because I understand this is every bodys country.
A true Moderate is what this country needs. One that can stand up to the party. Hillary can do that. Im not sure anyone can in the GOP except perhaps Mitt Romney.