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November 24, 2008

Time's Mark Halperin: 'Extreme Pro-Obama Bias' In the Press

Topics: Political News and commentaries
Apparently Time magazine's Mark Halperin is as disgusted as almost half the country is (those that didn't fall for Obama's and the MSM's spin) in stating the obvious about the way the media covered the presidential campaign.

From the Politico.

Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.

"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."

Halperin, who maintains Time's political site "The Page," cited two New York Times articles as examples of the divergent coverage of the two candidates.

"The example that I use, at the end of the campaign, was the two profiles that The New York Times ran of the potential first ladies," Halperin said. "The story about Cindy McCain was vicious. It looked for every negative thing they could find about her and it case her in an extraordinarily negative light. It didn't talk about her work, for instance, as a mother for her children, and they cherry-picked every negative thing that's ever been written about her."

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