Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign '08
The media-created narratives that derail election coverage
Not only do journalists organize the election story around the question--not terribly helpful to voters--of who's up and who's down, they largely base their evaluation of the race on shallow image-based narratives that the media construct themselves: Barack Obama is an "elitist" who might not "get the way we live" (Extra!, 7=8/08), while John McCain is a straight-talking "maverick" (Extra!, 5=6/08). Though these tropes are treated by establishment news ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
This article captures many of the agonizing bits of BS that are woven into the big corporate mediaTV and talk shows. They make it painful to watch or listen when this goes uncorrected. While some of it is intentional disinformation, it often seems to be woven into the consciousness of the talking heads so deeply, that they do not even know they are biased.