Media Bias

The right claims that Obama received more favorable coverage that McCain. OK I will agree with that to some degree. But lets look at this thing a little closer. I would posit that the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team had more favorable coverage than the New York Yankees. Here you had a team that came out of nowhere beating up the big guys. The Rays were made up with unknown players and a manager that had not been in that position previously. The Yankees had marquee players, a great manager and a fan base all over the world and they had a decent season (well over .500 anyway.) The Rays had all the good stuff. Last year they were the worst team in the AL this year they made the World Series. All late summer the baseball press and even the regular press were saying great things about them. More stories, more background, everything different than last year. The same thing happened in the campaign. Obama had good things happen and it was reported. McCain had good things happen and they were reported. Obama just had more.