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On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:14:34 -0400, Boater
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I didn't see the seven minute Williams interview nor the four minute
McCain segment. This past week, though, I noticed that both CNN and
MSNBC devoted a lot of news time in the day segments to McCain and
Palin, whose every appearance was dominated mostly by their trashing
Obama and bringing up Joe the Non-Licensed Plumber. Not much news in that.
Obama didn't buy $5 million dollars worth of time on CNN, coincidence?
maybe

Whatever point you are trying to make here, well, I don't know what it is.

I believe the ad money Obama is spending is also buying a lot of bias.
You just gave me an example. I am sure if it was McCain who had all
the money they would be throwing him soft balls and lots of free air
time.

Maybe the GOP will be a little more accepting of restoring the equal
time rule now. Personally I don't like candidates sold like beer on
TV. It is the TV money that corrupts these guys. You don't need a half
a billion dollars for buttons and bumper stickers.
Until we get the money incentive out of these races you are just
encouraging legal bribery. The problems is that this is such a cash
cow for the networks they will fight it tooth and nail. 90% of the
billion spent on this cycle went to a half dozen media companies.
Nobody saw ONE thing of value in an ad that they didn't see dozens of
times in interviews on the various news shows.

It's not "bias" when the cable TV networks show the candidates
delivering their stump speeches, and virtually all McCan and Palin do is
attack their opponents in theirs. That what I was referring to...and the
coverage has nothing to do with the money being spent. The cable
stations play most of the stump speeches of both sides.