Saturday, March 06, 2010
"Palin vs. Edwards, a case study in media bias"
Regardless of your opinion about these two people, I think you have to admit that there is/was a huge difference in their coverage by the media...
In the N.Y. Daily News, Jamie Weinstein writes about the differences:
"Search 'Edwards is unqualified' in Lexis-Nexis from the time Edwards was tapped by Kerry through Election Day 2004, and you get 11 results. Do the same for Palin and you get 174 results - and the search period is nearly two months shorter for Palin, because she was picked by McCain much later in the 2008 election cycle.
We now definitively know just how much of a liar, cheat and phony John Edwards is. But if the media had been one half as interested in exposing Edwards as a fraud as they have been in excoriating Palin, perhaps it would not have taken the National Enquirer to discover the truth that has led to the downfall of a politician who had a very real chance of becoming President."
