Media Bias: New York Times Refuses To Publish McCain Op-Ed After Publishing Obama Op-Ed, And Media Circus Follows Obama Around The World

Media bias is on full display at the New York Times. Suffice it to say that John McCain is no longer the media darling maverick he used to be, not once he became the Republican nominee. This only strengthens McCain's conservative bona fides in front of normal Americans who take rejection from the New York Times to be a badge of honor. The Drudge Report learned that not even a week after publishing an Obama Op-Ed on Iraq the New York Times rejected one from McCain because they felt it did not "mirror" the Obama article. NYT Editorial Chief (and former Clinton aide) David Shipley said that "It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq." Of course there were no such demands for specifics when it came to the generalities in Obama's piece.

Here is a link to Obama's Op-Ed from last week, entitled "My Plan In Iraq": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/opinion/14obama.html?ex=1373774400&en=6e3c74f501639e3d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Another example of media bias is the attention Barack's trip overseas, including at long last Iraq. CBS chief anchor Katie Couric in Jordan on Tuesday, ABC's Charles Gibson in Israel on Wednesday and NBC's Brian Williams in Germany on Thursday. McCain on his trips abroad or to Iraq has never been accorded this level of media attention. The AP reports on research conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that the news media have devoted significantly more attention to the Barack Obama. The article states that "for each of the weeks between June 9 and July 13, Obama had a much more significant media presence. The Project for Excellence in Journalism evaluates more than 300 political stories each week in newspapers, magazines and television to measure whether each candidate is talked about in more than 25 percent of the stories. Every week, Obama played an important role in more than two-thirds of the stories. For July 7-13, for example, Obama was a significant presence in 77 percent of the stories, while McCain was in 48 percent, the PEJ said... Newsweek has done six covers with Obama over the past year, two with McCain. A Rolling Stone cover with Obama stopped just short of adding a halo."


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