The American Media is Biased in Favor of Obama, Says... <i>Russia</i>

The American Media is Biased in Favor of Obama, Says... Russia

And they know a bit about manipulation of public thought.

ussia's Central Elections Committee has also assigned its Centre for the Study of Election Technology to review the U. S. election campaign.
A preliminary report prepared by the group, after studying U. S. media coverage on the NBC, CBS and ABC television networks since September, has concluded Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, has a "hidden advantage."
A preliminary report obtained by the Russian daily online newspaper Kommersant concludes the U. S. television networks devoted more time to Republican candidate John McCain, but "the material that makes up that time difference can be assessed as negative."
The Russian study also said Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential pick, has been subjected to more criticism than her Democratic counterpart, Senator Joe Biden.
It adds that when the presidential candidates' platforms are described, Mr. Obama's is described last, to make it look better, and when platforms are compared, "Obama's is presented preferable."
The observations appear to ape western criticisms of Russia's elections in which international observers have complained Russia's television networks are overwhelmingly pro-Kremlin and offer unbalanced and unfair coverage of opposition candidates.

Note they're releasing this defensively, to prove that Russia's own media abuses are just par for the course, no worse than that in the US.

And, apart from the murder of opposition journalists, they're pretty much right.

Thanks to locus.

Posted by: Ace at 06:53 PM

Comments

1 And, apart from the murder of opposition journalists, they're pretty much right.

Yeah. For now.

Posted by: Bart at October 24, 2008 06:55 PM (IBtnq)

2 What a relief to have the Soviets Russians checking out the fairness of our elections. Maybe we'll get a fair shake from their media.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at October 24, 2008 06:56 PM (OqXyp)

3 Yeah, remember that whole "this whole stupid war was Dick Cheney's idea" thing your American media did? We totally used that for Georgia! Thanks!!

Posted by: PRAVDA at October 24, 2008 06:58 PM (dr1s2)

4 I've asked my good friend Vlad to help me monitor the election.

Posted by: Jimmah Cahtah at October 24, 2008 07:01 PM (IVOZs)

5 What a relief to have the Soviets Russians checking out the fairness of our elections. Maybe we'll get a fair shake from their media.

Posted by: Purple Avenger

At this point I'd fucking take it.

Posted by: J.S. McCain at October 24, 2008 07:02 PM (IVOZs)

6 I think the Russians are using reverse psychology.

They know that they don't want McCain to win because O will be a walk-over, so they make it look like they are supporting McCain.

Posted by: Worried dude at October 24, 2008 07:02 PM (qSkZs)

7 If Obama wins, your 1/21/09 headline is: Russia invades Ukraine.

Posted by: lorien1973 at October 24, 2008 07:03 PM (IhQuA)

8 . . . the Democratic presidential candidate, has a "hidden advantage."

This is 'hidden'? I think they may have lost something in translation.

Posted by: Justin at October 24, 2008 07:04 PM (iH1PP)

9 "hidden advantage"? Was something lost in translation? What's the Russian word for "parade"?

Posted by: Joanie at October 24, 2008 07:04 PM (Yyy1m)

10 ha!

Posted by: Joanie at October 24, 2008 07:05 PM (Yyy1m)

Heh.

And my mom who reads Japanese websites and papers informed me that the majority of Japan, according to their polls, really fear an Obama win.

But you'll never hear that in our own papers.

Posted by: Mainstreet at October 24, 2008 07:07 PM (XWJh5)

12 It's official. I'm in the Twilight Zone, and you're all here with me.

Or maybe none of you are, and I'm hallucinating all of you while they load me into the ambulance.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at October 24, 2008 07:07 PM (JSO4h)

13 Anybody want to start a pool on how many days after Obama takes residence at 1600 Penn. Ave. a nuclear device is detonated somewhere in the world?

Posted by: Fuloydo at October 24, 2008 07:10 PM (S7Z5Z)

14 Well done, Joanie.

Posted by: Justin at October 24, 2008 07:11 PM (iH1PP)

15 If you did a content analysis of MSM (whatever they are), you'd no doubt find your sad MSM, is your good buddy, ace.

Your ideology is constantly on the hunt for enemies.

Posted by: joe the plumber at October 24, 2008 07:11 PM (WAbNV)

16 They don't call him Comrade Obama and the KGB-O for nothing.

And remember the kgb report that described Biden as weak and a lying sack of shit who wanted the ruskies to help him deceive his constituents into believing he actually did something for Jews being prevented from leaving Russia.

Posted by: Thomas E. Dewey '48 at October 24, 2008 07:11 PM (s+2rG)

17 I'm still going off the grid if Obama wins. I will not submit to an Obama presidency, I will hide out til it's over. LOL

Posted by: Nyctalus Lasiopterus at October 24, 2008 07:12 PM (kfg+B)

18 17 I'm still going off the grid if Obama wins. I will not submit to an Obama presidency, I will hide out til it's over. LOL

Posted by: Nyctalus Lasiopterus at October 24, 2008 07:12 PM (kfg+B)

Are you still taking subscriptions to your newsletter? Thanks.

John

Posted by: J.S. McCain at October 24, 2008 07:14 PM (IVOZs)

19 And, apart from the murder of opposition journalists, they're pretty much right.

I'm sure the desire is there, if only they had opposition journalists here.

Posted by: brak at October 24, 2008 07:15 PM (5gQ6O)

And my mom who reads Japanese websites and papers informed me that the majority of Japan, according to their polls, really fear an Obama win.

But you'll never hear that in our own papers.

On the other hand almost 90% of the Germans want Obama to win, and I usually get nervous when the Germans get that united.

Posted by: M�tenloch at October 24, 2008 07:17 PM (Js8cd)

21 Yea, but no mention of $150k wardrobe scandal?

If we can't trust the Ruskies to get the truth out, what now?

Posted by: Michelle's American White Racist at October 24, 2008 07:19 PM (NLtVk)

22 It takes courage to work as a journalist in Russia. In the west? Not so much.

Posted by: Filthy Scandi Snowbilly at October 24, 2008 07:19 PM (BxtwP)

23 Perhaps Putin will monitor the election. We know that he would do a better job than Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Redneck at October 24, 2008 07:20 PM (1gZs8)

24 Wait, what?

Sarah Palin has been criticized in the media more than Joe Biden? I can't believe it!

Is it possibly because, while Joe Biden says some stupid things from time to time, he is not an utter trainwreck of a candidate? Could that be the reason?

Come on. Forget Colin Powell, Scott McClellan and all the Parkers, Noonans, and Smerconishes of the world. One of John McCain's freakin' advisors, Charles Fried, just voted for Obama, in large part (according to him) because of the selection of Sarah Palin. She is a fucking joke. Some of you are even honest enough to admit it.

So obviously I am as at a loss for an explaination as you all are for why the media would be picking on her so unfairly.

Posted by: Seattle Slough at October 24, 2008 07:25 PM (H5l9d)

25 J.S. McCain at October 24, 2008 07:14 PM (IVOZs)

Are you still hoping to be Obama's chief salad tosser if he wins?

Posted by: Thomas E. Dewey '48 at October 24, 2008 07:26 PM (s+2rG)

26 M�tenloch, the poll of the Germans with such a high favorability percentage was back before when he visited Germany. Note also that a huge chunk of this is "Different party than Bush ist sur gut!"

The German press has been more than a little miffed that he wanted the Brandeburg Gate as a vista, and the bank panics have been like a giant club whacking Europe.

I'd be interested in a new poll.

Posted by: Al at October 24, 2008 07:27 PM (Lk931)

27 Uh oh, J.S. McCain, I think Seattle Slough is going to fight you for the salad tosser job.

Posted by: Thomas E. Dewey '48 at October 24, 2008 07:28 PM (s+2rG)

28 The Soviet news apparatus may have started out as the model for this sorta shit, but they're pikers compared to the beast our media has become.

Posted by: apotheosis at October 24, 2008 07:29 PM (xWk3U)

29 Seattle,

your back. Oh good. Thank you for you profound insights. Your mother just called "Ravioli's are ready."

Posted by: locus ceruleus at October 24, 2008 07:30 PM (e2mBS)

30 Al,
it should be noted that the Germans are having a revival of interest in Marx and Socialism.

Posted by: locus ceruleus at October 24, 2008 07:31 PM (e2mBS)

31 What about my back?

Posted by: Seattle Slough at October 24, 2008 07:31 PM (H5l9d)

32 If Obama wins, your 1/21/09 headline is: "Russia invades Nothing happened in the Ukraine, Seriously, How about them Cards?"

Fixed

Posted by: adamthemad at October 24, 2008 07:33 PM (kIjlp)

33 Locus, yes.
Absorbing East Germany was painful. They do appear to recognize that the Schr�der path was unsustainable. Barely.

Posted by: Al at October 24, 2008 07:38 PM (Lk931)

34 I think it's a how-to manual.

Posted by: Simon Oliver Lockwood at October 24, 2008 07:45 PM (SlHwj)

M�tenloch, the poll of the Germans with such a high favorability percentage was back before when he visited Germany. Note also that a huge chunk of this is "Different party than Bush ist sur gut!"
...
I'd be interested in a new poll.

I looked for a newer one, but couldn't find any. Still, it seems a little weird from an american point of view since you could never get 90% of americans to even agree that chocolate ice cream is good.

I check David's Medienkritik periodicaly to see what's up with the German media, and it's pretty eye opening. Their regular, casual anti-american bias is shocking, even by our biased MSM standards.

Posted by: M�tenloch at October 24, 2008 07:55 PM (Js8cd)

36 The Soviet Union er Russia still has a Siberia. Maybe BO is planning on outsourcing some government work.... A very twisted version of a rendition program that Orwell would have thought of with more time. Bo could call it a "time-out" for naughty Capitalists.

Posted by: torabora at October 24, 2008 07:56 PM (LKqyU)

37 Well, sure Russia has Siberia. But why'd we need it if we already have North Dakota?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 24, 2008 08:17 PM (YYanS)

38 I need to get a copy of the USSR anthem sung by the Red Army Chorus to play before every Comrade Obama speech.

Posted by: Thomas E. Dewey '48 at October 24, 2008 08:31 PM (s+2rG)

39 ...if only they had opposition journalists here.

Ummm...that would be us bloggers. I'm sleeping with a Beretta 92FS under the pillow these days...just in case.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at October 24, 2008 08:37 PM (OqXyp)

40 Who put this dick on my back?

Posted by: MSM at October 24, 2008 08:38 PM (PD1tk)

41 ROFL - All hail the RED ARMY CHOIR - How do CBS, ABC, NBC people even look themselves in the mirror after making us a LAUGHING STOCK of the world

Posted by: Watch Dog at October 24, 2008 08:50 PM (yCbBv)

42 And DOH'BAMA has the NERVE to say he'd be "up 3 points more if not for FOX"

It's like complaining about getting a 98 instead of 100 on the test

Posted by: Watch Dog at October 24, 2008 08:50 PM (yCbBv)

43 Why would barak need Siberia. After 8 years of total commie control, the USA will be the shithole of the world.

Posted by: Ronster at October 24, 2008 09:06 PM (kHIdm)

44 Why is no one talking about the Jeri Thompson hooter fetish?

Posted by: Fritz at October 24, 2008 10:02 PM (UU4Hu)

45 Well, if anyone can recognize propaganda, they can.

Posted by: GoldwaterGirl at October 24, 2008 10:57 PM (WXLRq)

46 Russian media members are applying for visas to study the methods of our media here, because they have been out of practice since glasnost!

BTW - the whole world fears an Obama presidency - hence the markets globally tanking.

Posted by: Robin Mac at October 25, 2008 12:54 AM (ETncP)

47 You know it's bad when our illuminati liberal media system is too corrupt, even for Russia.

Posted by: RJ at October 25, 2008 01:47 AM (7nbTg)

48 She is a fucking joke

So...Seattle Slough; why is that? When we say Obama is a socialist we have a clip of him to prove it.

Proof by repetition only works when your audience fears to answer. Question for you: Why does a community organizer and part-time senator outrank in experience a governor, mayor or career naval officer? Repetition tells you so?

Posted by: spice at October 25, 2008 02:50 AM (c14cm)

49 As an insider i can tell you that the while the american media is hardly biased, still such level of bias would be a significant progress of what we have here. All the three main (ORT, Russia, NTV) networks are owned by Kremlin, ORT and Russian has been always owned by them and NTV (initially independent and highly critical of Kremlin and Putin) has been seized (after that many anti-Kremlin ex-ntv journalists formed a new channel TV-6 which existed as far as i remember for about a year before being shut down). The only tv channel which all these years has been critical of Kremlin is called REN-TV, however about 2-3 years ago they also included an opinion show which is decidedly pro-Kremlin. I guess this was some sort of informal Fairness Doctrine imposition.

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