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I think the press likes the Obama administration the same way they liked the Bush administration at the start. Yes, indeed. The press is generally favorable t
by randallsquared 17y ago
I think the press likes the Obama administration the same way they liked the Bush administration at the start.
Yes, indeed. The press is generally favorable to the group in power, at least since Reagan (I don't remember much before him). Even when much of the press was anti-Bush, much of what they reported toed the administration line. It's easy; it's good for the career -- why wouldn't they be pro-power?
- wglb 17y agoNixon and the press had a really bad relationship. Kennedy and the press, however, was something to behold.
- jpwagner 17y agoDude, the press hated Reagan, disliked Bush, and loathed George W. Bush...
- HSO 17y agoWho is "the" press? I think who hates and loves whom is pretty predictable.
- krschultz 17y agoEasy to think that looking from 2009 backwards, but at this point in his administration he was just as fawned over from the media as Obama is today.
- jpwagner 17y agohttp://books.google.com/books?id=9L9qIIuj4WMC&dq=bias+book&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=914kSqinGJHitQPAm9GABA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4 http://books.google.com/books?id=9L9qIIuj4WMC&dq=bias+bo...
- jpwagner 17y agobut evidence doesn't always cut it with emotional debates now does it...
- ori_b 17y agoWell, not so much right after his first election, but there was a time right after 9/11 where he was extremely popular.
- jussij 17y agoI found it very easy to come to hate George W. Bush even without the help of the press.