Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, NBC, and ABC!

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  danogram04/23/08 Report as spam
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  Their's Another Angle To This

  When your convictions are liberal in nature and you're doing what you can to support the DNC, you're well advised to tone down or tune out political news for the moment. Events of the past few weeks have been devastating for the Democrat primaries; Hillary has been adding to her long list of not so credible statements and solidifying the persona, despite her best efforts otherwise, that so many now loath. Worse (from the DNC perspective), Obama is now being seen as quite a lot less than the promise so many wanted to believe, so desperately, he was supposed to be. The deeper your coverage now, the more damage you will do to the very team for whom you are rooting. In the mean time, McCain is milquetoast, with an effort, to stay out of range; pretty boring, and it would do ratings no good at all to cover a boring Republican.
  
  If Obama had married a less bitter woman, had he not carried the baggage of both unscrupulous and racially hateful personalities, he might have been able to put Hillary away many weeks ago. Alas, too many have had their enthusiasm dampened by confrontation with reality. If Obama's early image had been real, he would be cruising to the Oval Office with a whole lot of exciting (profitable) coverage from all forms of media. The MSM is loath to bring more light to the frustrations of these campaigns. And they certainly can't afford to add to their own losses in the process.

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  AMPorterfield04/24/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Election '08? Somebody Tell CBS, NBC, and ABC!

  Hey, at least CNN's Bohrman got off his keester and WENT to a trade show. As I left journalism 20 years ago, I was dismayed by the growing mentality among editors (not you, David) that reporters were to sit at their desks and "work the phones." I was watching journalism turn from an inquiry into the daily human condition (an inquiry that could take many forms) into a boiler-room sales-like operation.
  
  What's interesting now is while the broadcast networks eschew political coverage, they want the advertising revenue brought about by political years. Look at CBS's explanation of their first-quarter results as a example.