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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
But why? Why would big media want to sink Cain? Who is behind it?
PS...women still love Bill Clinton.
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I don't think there is a conspiracy in the press. I think reporters are always gunning for "their side." The
vast majority of reporters are well left of the US center. I know several reporters, all would agree (at the NYT, NPR, the local paper, and Bloomberg). (I found an msnbc report of political contributions by reporters... you can read the full list, but counting the Rs vs Ds is left as an excercise for the reader (you have to wade through
many Ds to get to a single R)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455.../#.Trmp-GBlp7J ).
I think that if the majority were right of center, coverage would be slanted to the right.
All news is biased.
It should be possible for someone that knows how to do story counts (there are systems in place to do word, story, etc counts on the news media) to compare the volume of coverage on Cain vs, say, Obama's association with domestic terrorist Bill Ayres. Or Obama losing all his records from his time as a lawyer and state rep. Or his lack of college transcripts, etc, ad nauseum.
I'm fine with digging up dirt on ALL OF THEM, as long as it is done with equal fervor.
I think some of the Cain crap sounds fishy, but I also think too many and it starts smelling of a pattern on his part, too. I am not a Cain defender, I just want equal digging. Look at the number of reporters sent to turn over rocks in Alaska vs Palin (who I actively dislike, BTW). She was getting more "investigation" to try and cut her off at the knees than Obama got running at the front of the ticket***8212;and WAY more than Biden ever got (and they needed to do nothing at all to smear Palin other than let her open her mouth and make some dumb statement out loud).