A Perennial Press Opera

No Obama worship on msnbc.com today, no Clinton trashing either. Clinton's win seem to have silenced the pimps at last. This is what happens when media cross the line of professionalism. Your demeaning reports on her reached vulgar proportion. You took people for granted, You thought you could force your crooked ideas on people. Well, they have proved that they are not stupids as you media portrayed.

As a subscriber to Newsweek, I was appalled. An entire issue devoted to Michell Obama. Never before in history , at least in my lifetime has this happened. Newsweek has yet to write anything but fluff about either of the Obama's. At the same time disecting every move Hillary makes, but always in a negative light. It is too late now, Obama the media candidate will lose solidly against McCain. The Obamacans will revert to their Republican roots and blacks cannot carry him.

Obama has masterfully played the race card to perfection, so much so, that Bill is now thought to be a racist. Here's how it works. People say negative things about Obama. Obama whines and whines some more until
his surrogates or the media pick it up and scream racism. Now when the media want to question Obama on any issue they are terrified of being dubbed racists. The media, along with the Clinton camp, are clueless on how to handle the race issue. Hence, Obama get a continuous free ride.

I am extremely disheartened about the bias of the press and the media. Senator Obama is being made into A SUPER-HUMAN MESSENGER OF CHANGE by the media. CNNand MSNBC are being carefull and sly in demeaning and defaming Senator Clinton in every possible way. Is this the kind of media and press WE NEED in our great Democratic nation? Senator Clinton has every right to have fair share of UNBIASED press and media coverage. She should get it.

The news pundits are already writing Senator Clinton's obituary. They ask her a question, she answers with detail and knowledge. Then Obama says "Me too" Perhaps his new slogan should be "Me too, rather than "Yes we can." Joe Scarborough said today on Morning Joe, that the only reason Hillary is not counted out is because the press is "allowing" her coverage. She has 1269 delegates. (Senator Obama has 1360)The total needed for nomination is 2025. Obviously neither candidate currently has enough elected delegates to win the nomination. Why are his delegates more relevant than hers? People like me who support Senator Clinton, know that she has earned the right to be covered by the press. I'm really tired of all of the gender bias from the press. People need to think for themselves, and not be swayed by male news pundits.

yes, the media has given obama a better and easier ride but that may change after tonight when the stories of the ties between obmaa and farakkahn surfice tomorrow - wow! and obamas preacher saying that Farakkaahn was great. unreal couple this with his wifes remark of unpatriotisma nd I will not vote for obama here in Texas

I absolutely agree that the press and media may hand this election to Obama. I have viewed so many biased programs on CNN and MSNBC that it is disheartening. Andrea Mitchell allowed some Latino congressman in Texas to go on for about 5 minutes giving a free political ad for Obama when he was supposedly being interviewed and of course there was no representation on Hillary's side afterwards. I've seen some of the political analysts serve on panels absolutely picking Hillary apart while singing the praises of his Lordship Obama. If the media had anointed her like they have Obama, I firmly believe that she would be the one in the commanding position that he is in now. The media has influenced the voters by always giving the perception that Obama has been "moving on up" and surprise, surprise when they push something often enough, and put the right spin on every statistic, perception becomes reality. Hillary Clinton has also endured the double standard that a woman running for office faces. The standards are higher for her than for any man. She has to prove that she is qualified, where a man like Obama can give inspirational speeches that belong in some church, and who cares if he is really qualified to make the hard decisions that a president must make. So when some say that the Clintons will use the media as an excuse when Hillary loses; hey, take it from an average citizen who has been a casual observer of the campaigns, the Clintons will be absolutely right!!!

I have been continually dismayed by the blatantly unfair press coverage for Hillary Clinton. Channel 4 in Los Angeles was airing a story about the candidates campaigning and showed a sound bite of Barack Obama giving a speech and then Hillary coughing and the reporter saying she was losing her voice from talking. How unfair can things get. I only heard bits of the Austin debate on NPR and thought Mr. Obama was given more time when giving his answers than she, but, was uncertain, then last night SNL did a whole spoof on how unfairly she was treated compared to him by both the moderator, Campbell Brown and the questioners. I absolutely don't like the idea that the candidates are treated unfairly as I firmly believe that affects the vote and the press absolutely should NOT be determining who our next president is. Another news magazine said one thing he has that she needs is a "adoring national press corps". People need to think for themselves about what is being said, not how it is being said, and the press needs to be responsible in its reporting by presenting the candidates objectively - That is their job!

I didn't like this article at all and for many reasons.

Nothing like having a stolen election, another by appointment by the Supreme court and now another election by the press.Of course we also have delegates,super delegates and let us not forget the electoral college.People ??? They don't count !

Andre -- That's a long stretch that people who are expressing concern over the press canonization of Obamessiah must somehow be afraid of a black man being president. That dog won't hunt. Black men had the right to vote 50 years before women had the right to vote and so on and so forth and blacks were slaves and women still are and so on and so forth. The above article CONFIRMS the TOPIC of conversation, which is that the press has used/abused its power to influence who is going to be our next president. That makes Americans angry. The press should do its job in a fair-handed manner, not based on getting even or personal feelings towards if a candidate sucks up to them as reporters or not. The EGOS in the press have commited a grave error that may cost our country dearly in the years to come.

OH, GROSS -- Obamessiah SMOKES????

Well, at last, an article that actually explains and admits that that press is abusing, er, using it's power manipulate Americans into electing the next president of the Press's choosing. It's just a fantasy that we, the people, elect our leaders. In reality? We are just like sheep who follow blindly where the press sways us to go. In this case, it doesn't matter that more than 70% of Americans will not be voting for Obamessiah, the anointed Prince of the Press at this moment. Nor does it matter that the irresponsible press will not be scrutinizing Obamessiah until he is already elected and it will be too late for us to use the information to help us make an informed decision. Shame on the press for letting petty egos get in the way of their responsibility to truthfully and fully inform the good people of this country.

To Alicia Hicks: Please don't be so naive to think that there is anything even remotely civilized about the discourse in the media during an election year. For anyone who just happens to win the nomination and the election it doesn't end there. Look how the president has fard in the eyes of the press. More to the point you can't blame the press when the candidate (Hillary) does nothing to discourage it. She was the one strutting and preening like she had the nomination wrapped up at the start of the year. She was the one practicing the rhetorical brinksmanship of questioning the judgement of any reprter or political analyst who dared to suggest that anyone could possibly challenge her. That doesn't even consider the voters. Bottom line is, people don't like being told how to think or vote. Journalists don't like to be told that another side of a story isn't worth following, that other side in this case being other democratic candidates. Hillary is on the brink of being pushed to the wayside in this election because she didn't percieve anyone else as being a serious contender. Top that off with the way she practically berated reporters trying to get close to her or whom suggested that she would have to reall ywork for her party's nod and of course they're gonna warm up to Obama and cast him in a better light! She alienated both the voters and the power base in the Democratic side, a sizable chunk of which both fiscal and name associated lies within the mainstream press.