Pensito Review: Politics and Media Pensito Review: Politics and Media
September 5, 2008
ARCHIVE: Newspapers

Last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown,” Keith Olbermann interviewed Stephen Price, the reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat who was ejected from a John McCain event, an incident Trish wrote about on Sunday.
Update from Trish: Incredibly, one of the first comments on this video at the YouTube site accused Stephen Price of “playing the race card” […]

Topics: McCain, Newspapers, Racism, Campaign 2008 |

Your assignment, Pensito Reviewers, is to take a quick bathroom break, grab the beverage of your choice, and then settle in and read “Loving John McCain” by Eric Alterman and George Zornick in its entirety.
Until you do, you won’t understand the media’s treatment of McCain, and the damage this love affair could do to our […]

Topics: Newspapers, McCain, Television, Fox News, Campaign 2008, Radio, Politics |

Media Matters:
CNN’s Carol Costello said that audience response at a Barack Obama rally is “a scene some increasingly find not inspirational, but ‘creepy,’ ” quoting columnists who have likened Obama supporters to members of a cult or described their enthusiasm as “creepy.” On-screen text during Costello’s report read: “OBAMA-MANIA BACKLASH” and “PASSION ‘CULT-LIKE’ TO SOME.” […]

Topics: Newspapers, Television, Democrats, Campaign 2008 |
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