An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Fair disclosure - I voted for Obama, Having said that I find it difficult to understand those who say the coverage was unfairly too positive for Obama and too negative for McCain. I think that view is a hangover from the nonsensical "fair and balanced" theory that every story has to be exactly balanced so as not to favor any particular point of view, even if the writer has to ignore truth in favor of balance. The McCain/Palin campaign was a mess. Obama's was just the opposite of a mess. Palin was a two-legged, living breathing mess. How do "fair and balance" that?