The liberal likes of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz are getting the credit or rap - whichever you prefer - for greasing the skids for passage of Obama's health care.
- NYT's Brian Stelter quotes a Project for Excellence In Journalism report to be released Monday:
- Liberal hosts spent 44 percent of their airtime talking about health care from June 2009 to March 2010, while conservative hosts spent 26 percent of their airtime on the subject.
- Similarly, the organization found that MSNBC, which leans left in prime time, devoted 32 percent of its news time to health care, while Fox News, which leans right in prime time, devoted 20 percent.
- The Project for Excellence in Journalism’s report relies on its weekly news coverage index. The report seems to bear out suggestions by some analysts that liberal hosts, by beating the drum about the need for reform, helped tipped the scales for the bill.
- Mr. Olbermann of MSNBC was particularly vigorous in his calls for reform, repeatedly invoking his sick father, Theodore C. Olbermann, who died the same month the legislation passed.
- “We want to live. What is government for if not to help us do so?” he said in one such commentary. He accused opponents of being misled by “the overly simple words of one side, and misinformed by the overly complex words of the other side.”
- In fact, the report also said that reporters and pundits more commonly echoed words used by opponents of the Democratic proposals than terms used by supporters. Notably, it found more than 2,500 media references to “death panels.”
and this is something to be proud of? they tipped the scale? yea the couple of thousand kool-aid drinkers that watch msnbc were all for it to begin with, who is stelter talking about there was never any doubt the people who watch msnbc loved this healthcare bill and wanted it passed, and what is he watching, msnbc is pro obama all day long, not just at night, andrea mitchell is certainly no unbias journalist.
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