Biased Media during the Primaries

Last week saw the exit of John Edwards from the Presidential race. Some of his strong supporters blamed the media and their lack of attention towards Edwards's run for his poor showing. Their arguement claimed that the corporate media froze out their man because Edwards was running a populist and anti-big business campaign. A report by a group affiliated with the Pew Research Center showed shows Edwards got significantly less coverage than his opponents.

Sen. Obama got the most coverage according to the survey, followed by Sen. Clinton. Former President Bill Clinton came in third, so even he beat out Edwards. But one problem with this line of thinking by Edwards supporters is that the top three in terms of coverage were all democrats, while republicans were in the back of the pack with Edwards. If coverage equates with bias, then the media really hates evangelicals, because Huckabee finished in last place in coverage. Conservatives don't fair much better with the media because Romney is basically tied with Edwards. Which is even more damning of the media because Romney is one of the two frontrunners on the Republican side and he got similar treatment than a third string democratic candidate.