McCain’s negative coverage up as numbers go down By DAVID BAUDER
John McCain may long for the days when Barack Obama got the lion’s share of the media attention: Coverage of the Republican candidate has been overwhelmingly negative since the conventions ended, a study released Wednesday found.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s report illustrates how the media echo chamber can send things spiraling out of control for a candidate. It’s likely to give ammunition to people who say the press has been biased against McCain, but the organization said its findings on this were inconclusive.
chutz·pa
–noun Slang.
1. unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
2. audacity; nerve.
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin, What Liberal Media?
