Here Come the Media Attacks on Obama

HERE COME THE MEDIA ATTACKS ON OBAMA
[SOURCE: AlterNet, AUTHOR: Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America]
[Commentary] With Sen. Barack Obama now emerging as the Democratic front-runner, clear signs suggest that his press treatment will soon change and that the media will fall back into their routine of viewing -- and critiquing -- leading Democrats through the eyes of Republican spin. New narrative: Obama is an overhyped, waffling phony, and his followers are delusional suckers. The truth is, long-term campaign press coverage has almost nothing to do with the candidate's policies, shortcomings, or previous scandals. It's built almost entirely around questions of "character," and even more transparently, around personality, or pointless personality traits. And that's why Obama remains vulnerable, because Republicans do a masterful job of convincing journalists that, in the end, they don't really like Democratic candidates, that they don't trust them.
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