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madashelltoo

(1,707 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:26 PM Jun 2012

LOPSIDED COVERAGE

Today there were two campaign speeches in Ohio. At the Rmoney speech the camera shot was extremely tight, showing maybe five rows of his audience. At President Obama's speech, the camera shot spanned out and showed the entire auditorium that was filled to capacity. President Obama delivered his speech in his usual calm, precise manner with a peppering of excitement that he controlled. The Mittster perspired his way through more rhetoric. Yet, the first things we hear are what President Obama did not do or say. What President Obama needs to do or say. What about the rich guy? How does he win parroting the same idiotic drivel over and over? Making haughty remarks about the president's eloquence of speech and delivery. Lying in the tall grass waiting for a word from the president he can use in an equally stupid commercial proving nothing. Moving his speech up an hour to usurp the president's thunder. Sending his baby idiots to heckle the president's supporters on a bus. If the president had done that to him, they would be filming the bus and reporting non-stop whatever was said or done. The coverage is lopsided.

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LOPSIDED COVERAGE (Original Post) madashelltoo Jun 2012 OP
kick for the truth! hedgehog Jun 2012 #1
KICKETY KICKETY X 2 ewagner Jun 2012 #2
Thanks for pointing out the truth. Needs to be heard far and wide. But it never will be on M$M. freshwest Jun 2012 #3
You expect something else from CorpoPravda? hvn_nbr_2 Jun 2012 #4
The discrepancies in coverage will only grow as we annabanana Jun 2012 #5
Always remember lsewpershad Jun 2012 #6
Tight shots means small audience. n/t proReality Jun 2012 #7
Welcome to America. hay rick Jun 2012 #8
When I first noticed this media practice it was a Reagan debate where he made no since and rainy Jun 2012 #9
Seems Madmiddle Jun 2012 #10
The media is NOT liberal. hrmjustin Jun 2012 #11
Frustrates the hell out of me. They never report on what Republicans emulatorloo Jun 2012 #12
The media will do whatever is required..... FrenchieCat Jun 2012 #13
kick nt Stuart G Jun 2012 #14
Another example of RW propaganda polluting media--Yahoo. BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2012 #15
Only possible explanation ... GeorgeGist Jun 2012 #16

hvn_nbr_2

(6,492 posts)
4. You expect something else from CorpoPravda?
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 04:07 PM
Jun 2012

CorpoPravda is owned, controlled, and managed by the same 1% who own Congress. The CorpoPravda talking bobbleheads are on the same corporate payroll as Congress is. The CorpoPravda bobbleheads serve their payroll masters just as certainly as the Congressional figureheads serve their payroll masters. The bigger the media get, the more completely controlled by greedy psychopaths they become.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
5. The discrepancies in coverage will only grow as we
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 04:41 PM
Jun 2012

get closer to November. It has happened every election. They have to twist themselves into pretzels to make the Republicans look less crazy...

rainy

(6,096 posts)
9. When I first noticed this media practice it was a Reagan debate where he made no since and
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 06:05 PM
Jun 2012

the media declared him the winner. How about GW when he was wired during one of his debates? He even said "let me finish" when no one had spoken to him and his red light was not on. The media would not touch it. Of course if it had happened to a Dem they would have destroyed him or her.

I'm starting to really hate the ways of this country!!!!!!!!

How on earth can people be so blind and stupid? Well I know the answer, the watch TV and listen to the radio.

 

Madmiddle

(459 posts)
10. Seems
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 06:08 PM
Jun 2012

most of the media, because they are run by huge corporations, are leaning further to the right than what the public will ever know. It's not all that subtle either. Anyone above ground can see the obvious bend in the media bias. Midle of the road voters will never know what hit them.

emulatorloo

(44,276 posts)
12. Frustrates the hell out of me. They never report on what Republicans
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 08:15 PM
Jun 2012

are actually doing, the obstruction, the disinformation campaign, the petty bullshit they engage in.

They just repeat their talking points.

FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)
13. The media will do whatever is required.....
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 04:31 AM
Jun 2012

to make this close so they can get their hands on those millions and millions of advertising dollars, period.

Far as they are concerned, this country can go to hell in a handbasket, as long as they have theirs.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
15. Another example of RW propaganda polluting media--Yahoo.
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 09:21 AM
Jun 2012

Yahoo disgusts me--every day, the way their "headlines" are worded. Always spun in favor of repukage, no matter who or what.

Also, their omnipresent ad banners from Spewsmax. Ugh!

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