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Honeymoon over for Obama
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Watching the Daily Show today I couldn't help but feel that Jon Stewart was being too tough on Barack Obama. Now I know that journalists sometimes try to be balanced, but I really think Jon is making a mistake for lambasting Obama in this way. Some say that the media has been helping Obama's campaign since somewhere around the first Democratic primary that he won, although I don't share in this opinion. I think he got as much trouble from the media as he got praise, and generally the Clinton camp had similar treatment.

Now! Isn't it just hypocritical to start tearing the candidate apart now, just because he's the official Democratic choice for president? Perhaps it's a problem with the media psyche; you build someone up and then you knock them down (if indeed the theory that he had special treatment is true).

Either way I think journalists like Jon Stewart, who have been staunchly anti-Bush should be careful - if they start to make the cracks in Obama's campaign seem wide it may hurt the Democrats when it comes to the general election. And then the US, and the world, will be stuck with another Republican president whose views are sometimes similar to the incumbent.

June 24, 2008 | 4:59 PM Comments  1 comments

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bumbuwazed R Kahendi
June 24, 2008 | 9:29 PM
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Yeah. It's definitely been interesting following the media's coverage of the campaigns.

The interesting thing about the audiences is that this time round they're not behaving as expected. Sometimes they reject the media, sometimes they embrace it. Only time will tell just how powerful a role the media has to play in all of this.
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