Which candidate gets more favorable coverage? Seems obvious to me and to the Center for Media and Public Affairs, apparently.
Since the primaries ended, on-air evaluations of Barack Obama have been 72% negative (vs. 28% positive). That’s worse than John McCain’s coverage, which has been 57% negative (vs. 43% positive) during the same time period.
It seems "Big John Gibson" decided to profit by writing a phoney book about the phoney ‘War on Christmas’ crusade Fox News allowed to be pushed through their mainstream news outlet. An amazing slap in the face to objective/credible journalism it was.
Here’s a transcript of a battle between Gibson and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann:
From the January 1 edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources:
KURTZ: Checking now in the world of media news, MSNBC’s Countdown host, Keith Olbermann, has gotten into a nasty spat with his former colleague John Gibson, now with Fox News. As noted by the Media Bistro website, Olbermann named Gibson one of his worst persons in the world, saying Gibson, quote, "revealed a very ugly side to himself while selling his new book about this phony-baloney war on Christmas."
Here’s what Gibson said during the November radio interview:
KURTZ: Olbermann read that quote on the air. And then last week, Gibson responded to Olbermann’s blast by denying that he had said it.
GIBSON [clip]: One of my former colleagues repeated a misquote to justify saying some truly disgusting things about me. Condescendingly, he tisk-tisked that he used to like me. I frankly doubt it, otherwise why would he be so willing to believe trash?
KURTZ: Olbermann then escalated the battle, saying the audio clip proves Gibson made the remarks.
OLBERMANN [clip]: The audio clip is the definitive answer, and I would hope John would now have the self-respect to acknowledge what he said and to leave the airways for good, because between the remark and the denial, he has, sadly, forfeited his right to stay here.
Gibson, Fox News anchor, now prophet….
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