There's a Media Black Out on the Only Black Candidate. It's Pissing Me Off.

[David Zephyr]

Senator Obama has more individual donors than any other Democrat or Republican running for President.

Senator Obama consistently tops the list in fund raising from a base of truly grass roots supporters.

Senator Obama still draws the biggest crowds of any candidate, be they Democrat or Republican.

Senator Obama, who was right on Iraq when it mattered, continues to speak to truth on issues that many others dodge such as dealing realistically with Cuba and Syria and Iran.

Until Oprah Winfrey held a million dollar event for Senator Obama, there hasn't been any real coverage of his inspiring campaign by the media for months...

Nothing!

In spite of the continued growing number of supporters...

In spite of the millions he continues to raise from small donors all over America...

In spite of the crowds...

There's a black out going on in the media against Senator Obama and it's beginning to piss me off.

Obama, hands down, is the biggest and most inspiring story of the entire presidential race and where is the media?

[splat]

1. He's been all over the news for months. The election is far away. n/t

[Recursion]

2. If this is a "blackout", what do you call "coverage"?

I've seen Obama at least as much as any of the other candidates.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. they are shilling for Hillary. But,

that said, Obama is having a major policy speech wednesday with Zbig with him. If this is not covered I say we need to organize and send out email bombs to the outlets. A list and go at them.
another thing: Oprah is the most powerful person in the media. They do not want to make Oprah mad.
We can always email her as well.
We are not going to let our primary be given away to the corporatist opportunist Hillary.
We can organize and we can fight back.

[emilyg]

5. Your obsession with Hillary is very interesting.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

11. Why do you keep calling HRC a corporate tool when CEO's and Wall Street prefer BO? nt

[Bitwit1234]

4. All I hear in the news is about the republican candidates

Neither one of the three top or bottom tier of the democrats ever get any press. The only time they mention Hillary is to bash her. Like the ones here on DU of a certain person's supporters.

[TankLV]

6. You must live in a different universe - all I see is Obama ad nauseum...

he gets more aire play BECAUSE he's the black candidate...

People also forget Jessee and Shirley and treat him as a first...

[Kelly Rupert]

10. Perhaps they mean the first black candidate with a chance. n/t

[2rth2pwr]

7. The top 3 are Hillary, Obama and

Edwards. Elizabeth Edwards complains that John doesn't get the same coverage that Clinton or Obama gets because he is not black or a woman.

[Kelly Rupert]

8. Using Google News to search the last month of stories:

Results 1 - 10 of about 20,429 for barack obama
Results 1 - 10 of about 28,781 for hillary clinton
Results 1 - 10 of about 19,459 for john edwards

Results 1 - 10 of about 13,288 for rudy giuliani
Results 1 - 10 of about 13,524 for john mccain
Results 1 - 10 of about 14,459 for mitt romney
Results 1 - 10 of about 10,369 for fred thompson

TOTAL OBAMA / DEMOCRATIC BLACKOUT

[draft_mario_cuomo]

9. Obama gets more coverage than any candidate-Dem or Rep--aside from HRC

The key difference is Obama's coverage is universally positive while Clinton receives negative press occasionally. I would rather have less press that is positive than more press with a lot of attacks included.

It is odd to see a BO fan complain about the media's treatment of him. If it weren't for the media Obama would be an obscure freshman senator. The media hyped him before he achieved anything. The guy was on the cover of Newsweek the week he entered the senate, for instance!