It seems that mainstream media favors the democrats and the Obama camp. this election.

After watching the news coverage of the Democratic National Convention and recently the Republican National Convention it appears that the mainstream news media heavily favors the democrats and the Obama campaign. Mainstream news media: Non-cable news networks; CBS,NBC,ABC. Watching the coverage of the DNC, I thought the news media did a good job of covering all the events and really highlighting the possitive attributes of the Obama/Biden campaign. The coverage really increased once Biden was selected as the running mate. We saw instant pieces on Biden's history in public office, how he rode the train everyday to work, how he has not forgotten his middle class values he earned during his childhood in New Jersey. We learned how he stayed strong when his wife passed away and he had to raise his sons as a single dad. They had a wonderful peice about how he fell in love with his new wife and I almost got choked up when the soft music played and Biden's sons excepted her and called her mom. I was really impressed with the narrated piece about Obama, how his mom and grandparents pushed him to excell, waking him up at 4:30 am to go over his studies for the day. We learned the romantic story of he fell in love with his wife as well. I really learned alot of the personal lives and all the GOOD about the two democrat nominees, never ONCE hearing about the controvercial, or seemingly negative things of the nominees. Surely the media would give just as much enthusiasm towards the Republicans. Lots of soft music, narrated stories about how McCain once got into trouble with his parents because tossed a baseball through the neighbors window and then had to rake leaves all fall to repay them. haha,... awww, cute good times.........NOPE! Evidently it is more news worthy when covering the republicans to flood the airways with how the Gov.Palin has a teenage daughter that is preggers. Is this news worthy,..? YES. I think so, but why negative spin? Isn't this a provoking and intersting thing, A very REAL politician with REAL American issues that thousands of normal American families deal with? The today show had 4 different segments this morning covering just this. The first was a brief overview of Gov. Palin's situation. Next was an interview with Guiliani asking him why the republicans were "keeping this a secret," WHAT!? It was less than week since Palin was chosen. The third peice was with the great mind of Dr. Phil expressing his concern over the daughter and judging the character of a mother that would thrust her 17 yr. old pregnant daughter into the spotlight,... the final opinion was Gov. Palin is a selfish person. Meridith of the the Today Show even defended Obama/Biden when Guiliani refuted her attack on Palin's experience. After the interview they sent it back to the studio where we saw an 8 minute piece about the Palin "contravercy" invloving an ex brother in law. This was just some of todays coverage. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the RNC in Minnesota over the last couple of days and was able to see this first hand,... the media ignoring several Rep. leaders and mawling the teenage children of Palin. A heavy focus on Gov. Palins pregnant daughter, and covering with a negative twist, and not an larger overview of Gov. Palin and her life with all charm that was given to the democtratic nominees. I was asked by one pollster if the news of Palins pregant daughter gave me a more worried outlook, or a did I feel the same as I did before. I replied, I feel it is a very real situation, and I think they are handling it well, alot of families can now relate personally with the candidates. I was asked several follow up questions that begane with,... "BUT, even when,.. or; BUT, even if,... It was obvious they were hoping the poll would rock the boat in a negative way,... When they asked another person near by that expressed some worry about the selected VP candidate,... No follow up questions,... just a yeah, I hear ya there,! From the pollster, and that was it! I am rambling now,.. and I will provide more points, and sources in the next round.