August 28, 2008

If You Need More Proof the Associated Press Is In McCain's Corner ...

This is their response to Obama's speech? In the first place, maybe they'll later add an "analysis" tag to the work and stop calling it a "news" piece, as they've done with McCain-cheerleader Fournier's work. But beyond that ... c'mon. You've got to be freakin' kidding me. They want 40 paragraph-long essays of the precise details of tax policy proposals in an acceptance speech? He said he'd cut taxes for 95% of working families. To me that's a pretty clear promise. That he didn't get into the details of that is far from surprising, given the nature of the speech and the event, and to expect that he would verges on the ludicrous. No doubt if he had they'd criticize him for droning and losing touch with the people and being dull. I'll be exceedingly surprised if McCain is as detailed in his plans next week as McCain was tonight. But somehow I'm not expecting the AP to be this tough on him if he's not.

The AP is hardly the only outfit that's done an egregiously poor job of covering Obama's platform. In her post-speech analysis Judy Woodruff noted that he'd finally put some meat on the bones of his proposals, responding to critics who said he was all talk. She was either clueless or seemingly unaware that the "meat" had been there for months and months and PBS and the rest of the traditional media had simply declined to highlight it as the media covered important debates over celebrity or Obama's "presumptuousness" or the exact number of homes John McCain owns. But while the traditional media's done a horrific job this cycle in terms of providing election coverage that would actually be of use to most voters the AP stands out as being uniquely agenda-driven (well, apart from Fox of course).

Posted by armand at August 28, 2008 11:58 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Media | Politics


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