Comments on: Monday morning quarterback: Campaign 2008 http://www.bloggernews.net/118894 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:13:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Steve http://www.bloggernews.net/118894#comment-809024 Steve Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:00:51 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118894#comment-809024 If you haven't figured out by now, positive coverage is correlated with advertisement spending. It was trivially obvious watching the national media. The best days for McCain came during advertisement blitzes, and the same for Obama. Obama having more money meant he outspent McCain, and the corporate media paid him back with positive coverage. If your only news source is a bunch of large for-profit companies who work together, what do you expect the news to be? If you haven’t figured out by now, positive coverage is correlated with advertisement spending.

It was trivially obvious watching the national media. The best days for McCain came during advertisement blitzes, and the same for Obama.

Obama having more money meant he outspent McCain, and the corporate media paid him back with positive coverage.

If your only news source is a bunch of large for-profit companies who work together, what do you expect the news to be?

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