The Edwards media blackout

[Andy823]

It's been pretty obvious that the MSM has a thing with John Edwards. His lack of coverage over the last year shows that. There is a great diary over on DK that has hit the nail on the head, and shows how bad it really is. Please take a look at it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/31/141617/72/752/428416

[kansasblue]

1. McClatchy does a good job. 'Edward surges. '

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/23940.html

DES MOINES, Iowa — John Edwards has clawed his way into contention to win Iowa's caucuses on Thursday in the first vote for the Democratic presidential nomination, gaining strength even as rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have lost ground,




http://www.mcclatchydc.com/

[surfermaw]

11. McClatchy is a Hill paper, Bill was on Comi..that help them buy the Charlotte Observer

Sometime they seem to even try to make Edwards look unattractive, and boy it is hard to do that, all media have given Edward a hard time when it comes to giving him coverage, Wolf Blitzer is one of the worst, the only time he covered Edwards was when he could bash him.. Oh He may have given him two time that were good. The media has kelp Edwards off the air, and given Hillary and Obama million dollars of coverage, the two of them have spend millions of dollar in Iowa, Edwards has spent little, and in the end the man that should win will win and his name is JOHN REID EDWARDS


Go Labor Go..You are the ones that made the democrat party , now come back and save it for us democrats...Go Labor

[jenmito]

2. When he was 3rd in the polls, 9% behind Obama, they called it a "statistical tie."

But now that he's up 1% from Hillary and 2% up from Obama with a 5 point MOE, he's "ahead." :eyes:

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. Edwards is getting treated with kid gloves. Nothing negative

As is Obama.

The media is saving their attacks for Clinton.

Can you imagine if Clinton tried to reinvent herself? Good God, they would be screaching LIAR from the rooftops!

[surfermaw]

14. I beg your pardon, the only coverage Edwards has gotten from the media was bashing.

[gmudem]

21. Surely you're joking.

Most of the MSM's coverage of Edwards is about his freaking haircut. You can't seriously believe what you just said.

[RBInMaine]

4. It's why we need to reform the corporate media !!

The corporate media is mostly a sham, full of corporate lackeys
that black out mostly everyone except the "glitzy" candidates and then
run others down with their editorializing posing as journalism. It happens all the time. The bias is unreal, and the way to fight it is to get a good Democrat like Edwards in their, change the
make-up of the Bush/Cheney FCC which just bullied through more media consolidation, and we need to get new media consolidation legislation passed (there is a bill pending now). The corporate media is sickening, and too many of the unknowing populace are virtually brainwashed by it. If there is one thing we should be doing on the left, it is fighting for and setting up real, honest alternative media outlets. Air America is one, but it struggles to stay alive. Part of the Republican-led corporate takeover of the country was to control the media. It's time to fight back. Go to Media Matters on the internet to find out more, and ELECT JOHN EDWARDS so we can kick out the coporatists !

[kansasblue]

5. ..or new independent news org like....the Real News

http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php

[Andy823]

8. Couldn't agree more

The bias is terrible, and we need to do something about it. Edwards will!

[surfermaw]

16. You got it Andy823

[Jane Austin]

6. The MSM talks about Mitt Romney's flip-flops

but not Edwards's.

He gets a pass from the media - almost never anything negative.

[kenfrequed]

7. As a Kucinich supporter

I would have to tell you,
"Welcome to the club"

[Triana]

9. I've been griping about this for a while now...

..it's good to see some actual numbers, percentages and charts.

THANKS for posting this. It CONFIRMS my assertion that the M$M is ignoring Edwards - DELIBARATELY.

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. He is getting media attention right when it helps him the most

Kind of like in 2004. Late breaking positive momentum shortly before the first votes. There is something to be said for being left out of the mud slinging prior to the final couple of weeks. John Edwards was the first candidate to seriously go negative and he paid little price for that. But it helped him rally his base in Iowa. Now, even though John Edwards virtually lived in Iowa for the last few years, he is poised to possibly be a surprise "upset winner" there. You can't buy a better story line than that. No one has really attacked Edwards seriously in the media since that hair cut.

[surfermaw]

15. And the hair cut was a bunch of crap

A man like Edwards needed someone to come to him for a hair cut, and the barbers don't work for nothing, Heck we paid someone for a wedding 4 hundred dollars to fix the Brides and bridesmaid hair..what was the deal, that was the only thing they had to bash Edwards for so they bashed him, there is nothing there to bash him with, that is why it is better for him to win the nomination, if Obama wins they will come up with something even if their is nothing there, Hillary they will dig up something that they have saved, with Edwards they tried hard to get him when he ran with Kerry, and a anorther thing if Kerry had listened to Edwards and gone into the red states we would have won the election, if Clark hadn't gotten in when he did Edwards would have stomped Kerry in Iowa. And that is the way it is.

[Tom Rinaldo]

22. Hello?

I CALLED it an attack, right? I said he hasn't really been attacked much by the media SINCE "the hair cut", and those are the very words I used; "the hair cut". I didn't dignify it with any details, it was a media attack. The media attacks Democrats, we know that, but for the last few months they have attacked mostly Hillary and Obama some, but rarely Edwards.

And another thing, why did you see a need to tag on your "another thing" to my reply? Did I raise the 2004 general election or differences over strategy? By the way Clark didn't run in Iowa in 2004. And what gave Edwards such a divine right to run in 2004, that now another candidate should be blamed for Edwards not beating Kerry? They ALL wanted to be President.

[peoli]

12. If a person is even slightly interesting they will get media coverage.

I think thats all there is to the John Edwards MSM mystery.

[surfermaw]

17. I doubt that , when the candidate is hitting corporate America hard

[peoli]

19. A multi millionare complaining about the rich

getting richer just dosent do it for me.

[ChiciB1]

24. Horse Dukey Times Five!!! n/t

[no name no slogan]

13. "lack of coverage" *snicker*

Just be glad he's not Kucinich. Right now, Dennis would have to go on a murderous rampage across all 50 states to even get a paragraph at the back of the classifieds.

[surfermaw]

18. I agree with you there,

And which candidate policies is closest to Dennis...Edwards, end of discussion.

[dajoki]

20. Very obvious. Read this...

This has bothered me for a long time. Here are two telling stories that I posted recently:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3904923

Hey Media!! Pencils UP For John Edwards!!
Linda Milazzo's blog
Hey Media!! Pencils UP For John Edwards!!
by Linda Milazzo | Dec 28 2007 - 6:40pm |
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/11791

Mainstream media's (MSM's) manufactured Presidential campaign, spun by corporate punditz, has been a frustrating slog for John Edwards' supporters. Not because Edwards, himself, is disappointing. Quite the contrary. Edwards' supporters across the nation remain steadfastly loyal to their candidate, and to his unwavering commitment to a pro-PEOPLE/non-CORPORATE America.

It's the corporate media that's the problem. It's the fact that John Edwards is the target of agenda journalism which undermines his popularity and the extent to which his message resonates nationwide.

There are two rationales for MSM's strategy to weaken John Edwards:

One: John Edwards is the avowed enemy of greed-ridden corporations, and promises to end corporate dominance over the lives of Americans.

Two: Edwards doesn't cast well in corporate media's electoral theatre. He's unsuitable for their pre-penned Presidential drama, staged in three acts, and performed this past year, this next year, and for years to come in a politically contrived cable & network run.>>>>
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3909899&mesg_id=3909899

It's what's not in the story...
If you want to read anything about John Edwards you have to go to page two, five paragraphs from the bottom and you will find this little nugget--For others, the Democratic field is more exciting.
Carol Walker Aten, who heads an Exeter nonprofit, says she still admires McCain's independence, which drew her to him in 2000. But she had narrowed her choice to Democrats Obama and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. "We really need a change," she said.

That's it, the story even mentions Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole before they get to Edwards. There has been a lot of discussion around here about this very thing, and this just backs it up. Why are they afraid of John Edwards?

McCain losing votes to Obama in N.H.
Nonaligned voters in New Hampshire have their pick of parties. This time around, they lean toward a Democrat.
By Maeve Reston and Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
December 30, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-independents30dec30,0...

NASHUA, N.H. -- Like many New Hampshire voters, Dave Montgomery considers himself a dyed-in-the-wool independent -- which in this state means he can vote in either the Republican or Democratic presidential primary when he goes to the polls Jan. 8.>>>>

[K Gardner]

23. He actually got some "live" time on CNN today and I just saw an excellent

interview.. I think he's going to surprise people. Iowans know him. It's the rest of the country I worry about.