Clinton & The Media: "Media People are Living in Fear.. It's Affecting News Coverage."

[K Gardner]

Many Obama supporters have voiced the concern that the press coverage of Obama has changed dramatically since the SNL fiasco, not that the coverage is bad.. it is that it is nonexistant. I've received PMs and seen messages in other places but GD:P where people are wondering if it is their imagination.. has the narrative changed THAT dramatically or are we imagining things? Could the narrative have really changed enough to affect, even by a few pts, the vote? For those people, the Bill Mahr panel discussion last night will be extremely illuminating. Joe Scarbrough admits that the narrative has, indeed, changed. And while he tries to spread the "blame" to both camps, I personally found his comments enlightening in the way the Clinton Campaign and supporters are interacting with the media and affecting the news coverage.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGvDYKtHyMw&feature=related

This is Part 1 of the panel discussion on Bill Mahr last night. Scarbrough's comments begin at minute 7:30 and continue on the Part II video.

(start at minute 6:30 to hear comparison between Hillary/Obama debate performance)

Guest: "Obama is an incredibly thoughtful, literate person. The kitchen sink campaign theory of campaigning has brought out the many faces of Hillary Clinton.. she's acting more like a bipolar personality person, she seems genuinely troubled. Watching that debate with the two of them.. even his body language - he wasn't going to upset her. The more upset she got, the more level-headed he became and I think we have to look at that."

This led into Scarbrough's comments:

Joe: "There have been minefields for Obama the press has been tiptoeing through. If you attack Hillary Clinton, organizations will call and say, ' Get that person off the air'. Media people are living in FEAR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzOyIOULOU - Comments start at the beginning of this clip

Guest: "Do you feel after Clinton's campaign was uptting all this pressure on the media to adopt a new stance the media felt shamed into adopting that.. because the narrative changed so dramatically."

Joe:"They're playing the refs. The Clinton people say, "You're giving Obama a pass, you're kicking her, you're screwing us. So what happens? The narrative changes. Its from both sides. Network executives and editors are getting bombarded. They're making these complaints and its affecting news coverage."