The media's Messiah

[mahnmut]

Six days to go, and Obama is gearing up for the election. His huge financial backing now pays back by effectively OWNING the whole PR/media machinery of the US.

(Still, he won't buy time on the Disney Channel, to the relief of his daughters.)

Comments

[tvuutietyle24.livejournal.com]

Money or not, Obama has been the media favourite since his nomination. That's even worse in the foreign press.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Define "worse" :-)

[tvuutietyle24.livejournal.com]

Find a pro-McCain article in the mainstream European press.

Or, well, just take those Canadian tv presenters who decline to report on the Republican agenda.

Haven't you seen that global survey where Obama receives 70-80% of the vote?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I have, but explain how the world favouring Obama over McCain is "worse".

[tvuutietyle24.livejournal.com]

Favouring either one is not the journalists' job. Or if they choose to do so, they should drop their "impartial" label.

Besides, there's a major idealisation of Obama done in the media and among people.

Obama runs for the presidency of the United States, he'll lead a superpower. So many things will not change. There will be unilateral decisions, he will act in the interests of the US first and foremost - just to name the main points.

[madali.livejournal.com]

Its more fun to write about the young, black guy rather than the old white guy.

The same way Palin got a lot more attention than Biden got.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Our major papers are owned by Unky Rupert, McCain hasn't had a bad run here. Having said that, Obama gets friendlier press here because it'll sell more papers, the Republican brand is as tarnished as the Liberal party. We're also not so afraid to be discussing just how monumental a moment a black president is going to be. It rarely gets mentioned in the US press (which is probably a good thing), but it's a pretty major story elsewhere.

As for Obama getting 80% of the vote in global surveys, that is more an indication of the political climate in most countries (the US is far and away the most right wing industrial nation); Obama looks like a politician, McCain looks like a loose cannon. And believe it or not, the world is a little over cowboy presidents.

[alphistia.livejournal.com]

good points. I doubt the Berlusconi press in Italy is very supportive of Obama either, or the right wing press in Spain, like ABC newspaper. In any case, the tradition of "impartial" media is an Anglo-American pretension (hi Canada ;-) Continental Europe has generally had a much more politically oriented media, allied with political parties or ideology. It's more honest, honestly...

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

A media stripped of all the hypocrisy. I like the idea...