War Takes Center Stage as Obama (and Media) Moves Overseas

Journalism.org by Tom Rosenstiel | Jul. 22, 2008 (News Analysis)

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in various dimensions, retook center stage in the campaign for the presidency last week.

In a period that began with speeches on foreign policy by both candidates and ended with Barack Obama traveling to the Middle East, more than one-third of the campaign coverage last week focused on Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama's trip, according to the Campaign Coverage Index of Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in ... Full Story »

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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

An in-depth analysis of the percentage of coverage the media gave to various stories last week. Chief among them was Obamas’ trip to the Mid-East. Quoting: ‘The Guardian newspaper in England likened the anticipation to the Beatles’ first trip to North America.’ American media also treated Obama’s trip as his first–ignoring the fact that he made a similar trip to the Mid-East in 2006. However, the irony was the blind-siding of both Bush and McCain by Maliki who, in a German magazine, said he agreed with Obama’s redeployment proposal, giving him a quasi endorsement. Effectively sinking Bush’s occupation plan and rendering McCain’s schedule 98 years out of date.

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