Do you remember Pres Clinton complaining about it? Do you recall Pres Clinton wondering why Obama's real position on Iraq was not discussed?
Ironically, it was Hillary Clinton who suffered tremendously from the Obama-media love affair.
Remember the SNL comedy shows?
Now, we have a Pew Research study that makes the point:
"As he marks his 100th day in office, President Barack Obama has enjoyed substantially more positive media coverage than either Bill Clinton or George Bush during their first months in the White House, according to a new study of press coverage.
Overall, roughly four out of ten stories, editorials and op ed columns about Obama have been clearly positive in tone, compared with 22% for Bush and 27% for Clinton in the same mix of seven national media outlets during the same first two months in office, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism."
Again, we are not asking for a negative, "in your face", gotcha media. What we want is a news media that will ask real questions about future deficits, GITMO and Pakistan.
So far, we've too many questions about the dog and "enchantment".
Newt Gingrich said that journalists have ".....taken such a pathetic dive with this President that they ought to be part of his PR firm.
