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Analyst: Media attempting to defuse Palin's future
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=297958A media analyst says because the mainstream news media fears that Sarah Palin is not in her last national political race, they have been on a mission to attack and discredit the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
A recent study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows Governor Palin has drawn three times as much coverage as Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden since the political conventions. It also concludes that 39 percent of the print and broadcast stories about Palin were negative, while 28 percent were positive and 33 percent were neutral.
Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, says there are two main reasons why the Alaska governor receives not only more coverage, but also more hostile coverage than Senator Biden.
"They're familiar with Joe Biden. He's run for president several times. They all know him. He's been in Washington for a long time, and they agree with his point of view on the issues. That makes him non-controversial. That makes him really old news to a certain extent," he contends. "[But] Sarah Palin's a brand new story. Even people who support her are not that familiar with her, and she represents to the news media a dangerously ultra-conservative [and] inexperienced person."
The only positive news story about Palin in the mainstream media since the Republican Convention, according to Graham, focused on how her eyeglasses have become a popular new fad.
