From the Media Research Center



Worst of the Week: Team Obama's Media Helpers Hide Bad News for Democrats
By: Tim Graham | View PDF Version
October 14, 2010 09:21 ET


While network correspondents complain about the unfairness of independent advertising, they might ponder the unfairness of their habitual tendency to omit or downplay bad news for Team Obama, especially in the crucial last weeks of a campaign. Consider some of the latest stories that would have drawn much more attention and media hostility if the shoe was on the Republican foot:

â–* Oil spill incompetence or dishonesty. A panel assembled by the White House to assess the government’s oil spill response issued a report declaring the Obama administration created the impression that it was “either not fully competentâ€