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Why does
Obama get more news coverage than McCain?
From
CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
When
Barack Obama travels overseas to Europe and the Middle East, he
won’t be alone.
Obama’s
trip is becoming a media extravaganza. All three network anchors
will join him – broadcasting their nightly newscasts from stops
along his route. Also along to record Obama’s every move, top political
reporters from major newspapers and magazines. 200 journalists have
asked to join Obama on the trip, although the campaign will only
be able to accommodate about 20% of them.
Meanwhile,
Republican John McCain has taken 3 foreign trips in the last 4 months,
and not a single network anchor has gone on any of them. It’s causing
some concern among Republicans that the news media aren’t giving
balanced coverage.
They
may have a point. The three broadcast network newscasts, which have
20 million viewers combined, spent about 114 minutes covering Obama
since June, compared to 48 minutes for McCain. Obama has been on
the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines 12 times in the last 3
years, compared with 5 for McCain. And in the last few weeks, Obama
has also landed on the cover of Rolling Stone and US Weekly, along
with interview of his family by “Access Hollywood.”
The
TV executives have lots of reasons for why this Obama trip is such
a big deal: it’s his first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive
nominee, he’s a fresh face in politics, the historic nature of Obama’s
campaign, and the overwhelming interest in him overseas. Those are
all valid. But that doesn’t mean McCain has to like it.
Here’s
my question to you: Why does Barack Obama get more news coverage
than John McCain?
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