<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: The Media&#8217;s Role in the Obama Phenomenon: a Sign of Deeper Trends</title>
	<atom:link href="http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/</link>
	<description>An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:45:20 -0500</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: runasim</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150395</link>
		<dc:creator>runasim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150395</guid>
		<description>DLS-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just like when talking about Democrats, I want to know which Democrats, when people  like you keep on about he liberal media, I&#039;d need to knwo which media, who and how.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;These days, the media function on a business model and they  will sell whatever commodiry has buyers, from Rush Limbaugh to Keith Oberman.&lt;br&gt;Being businesses, however, the  executives are  much friendlier to the GOP, as they are seen as more buisness friendly,  If, however, there is hot &#039;liberal&#039; story afoot, they will push that  on the customers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&#039;s whatever sells (attracts viewers and advertisint)).&lt;br&gt;The liberal media meme is so passe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DLS-</p>
<p>Just like when talking about Democrats, I want to know which Democrats, when people  like you keep on about he liberal media, I&#39;d need to knwo which media, who and how.</p>
<p>These days, the media function on a business model and they  will sell whatever commodiry has buyers, from Rush Limbaugh to Keith Oberman.<br />Being businesses, however, the  executives are  much friendlier to the GOP, as they are seen as more buisness friendly,  If, however, there is hot &#39;liberal&#39; story afoot, they will push that  on the customers.</p>
<p>It&#39;s whatever sells (attracts viewers and advertisint)).<br />The liberal media meme is so passe.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: pacatrue</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150394</link>
		<dc:creator>pacatrue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150394</guid>
		<description>Flag lapel pins, Bosnia tales, and serving on a board with Ayers are certainly the fundamental issues facing our nation, so I think the debate did a perfect job in helping the American public choose a President.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flag lapel pins, Bosnia tales, and serving on a board with Ayers are certainly the fundamental issues facing our nation, so I think the debate did a perfect job in helping the American public choose a President.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: politics &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The Media’s Role in the Obama Phenomenon: a Sign of Deeper Trends</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-111855</link>
		<dc:creator>politics &#187; Blog Archive &#187; The Media’s Role in the Obama Phenomenon: a Sign of Deeper Trends</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-111855</guid>
		<description>[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere&#8217;s a quick excerptBut it’s not exactly a new trend; the media also — according to me — did its little all to get George W. Bush elected. At The Fix, Chris Cillizza logged major developments in ‘the debate over the debate’: &#8230; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere&#8217;s a quick excerptBut it’s not exactly a new trend; the media also — according to me — did its little all to get George W. Bush elected. At The Fix, Chris Cillizza logged major developments in ‘the debate over the debate’: &#8230; [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: T_Steel</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150393</link>
		<dc:creator>T_Steel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150393</guid>
		<description>Actually DLS, I don&#039;t find your criticism grating at all.  I think you have some good insight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually DLS, I don&#39;t find your criticism grating at all.  I think you have some good insight.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ChrisWWW</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150392</link>
		<dc:creator>ChrisWWW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150392</guid>
		<description>Just look at the way the press treated Bush, how they treat McCain, how they treated Reagan vs. how they treat both Clinton&#039;s and now Obama. The proof is right before your eyes. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I hereby declare the media is conservative.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just look at the way the press treated Bush, how they treat McCain, how they treated Reagan vs. how they treat both Clinton&#39;s and now Obama. The proof is right before your eyes. </p>
<p>I hereby declare the media is conservative.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150391</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150391</guid>
		<description>OK, Chris, you can be mentally ill if you choose, but you don&#039;t advance yourself, to say the least.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, Chris, you can be mentally ill if you choose, but you don&#39;t advance yourself, to say the least.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ChrisWWW</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150390</link>
		<dc:creator>ChrisWWW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150390</guid>
		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;But at the same time, the very most stupid or dishonest people will deny that people in the media are liberal.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;Only stupid or dishonest people would make such a claim after witnessing the media&#039;s transformation in the last 30 years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>But at the same time, the very most stupid or dishonest people will deny that people in the media are liberal.</p></blockquote>
<p>Only stupid or dishonest people would make such a claim after witnessing the media&#39;s transformation in the last 30 years.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150389</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150389</guid>
		<description>&quot;unconstitional&quot;  Nice wine at lunchtime.  I&#039;m still in a Ted Kennedy kind of mindset.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;unconstitional&#8221;  Nice wine at lunchtime.  I&#39;m still in a Ted Kennedy kind of mindset.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150388</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150388</guid>
		<description>T-Steel: In case you wish to know, you will be relieved to know that I make the distinction between Obama the subject of cult leftist idiocy and transparently hypocritical (and unconstitional) predictable-leftist reverse racism, and Obama not only the young, attractive &quot;package&quot; but qualified candidate for the Presidency.  Just in case you found some of my criticism to be grating at times.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>T-Steel: In case you wish to know, you will be relieved to know that I make the distinction between Obama the subject of cult leftist idiocy and transparently hypocritical (and unconstitional) predictable-leftist reverse racism, and Obama not only the young, attractive &#8220;package&#8221; but qualified candidate for the Presidency.  Just in case you found some of my criticism to be grating at times.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: DLS</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150387</link>
		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150387</guid>
		<description>But at the same time, the very most stupid or dishonest people will deny that people in the media are liberal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But at the same time, the very most stupid or dishonest people will deny that people in the media are liberal.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ChrisWWW</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150386</link>
		<dc:creator>ChrisWWW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150386</guid>
		<description>Damozel,&lt;br&gt;You seem to have missed the last few months, so let me bring you up to date via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23570034-26397,00.html&quot;&gt;Andrew Sullivan&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hillary Clinton has argued he is less qualified to be commander-in-chief than the Republican nominee, John McCain. She has said she doesn&#039;t know for sure he is not a secret Muslim. She has said his choice of church is unacceptable to her. She has said he deliberately wants many Americans to continue scraping by without health insurance.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Her campaign has insinuated he was once a drug dealer. The Clintons have publicly associated Obama with domestic terrorist William Ayers, with the militant Palestinian group Hamas and with anti-semitic demagogue Louis Farrakhan. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I would agree that &lt;b&gt;early on&lt;/b&gt; Hillary unfairly received the &quot;villainess edit&quot; but now she has more than earned it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And I&#039;m going to tell you what I told Pete Abel:&lt;br&gt;Please stop wasting your time on the Politico. It&#039;s just another cog in the Fox News/Limbaugh/Drudge machine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damozel,<br />You seem to have missed the last few months, so let me bring you up to date via <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23570034-26397,00.html">Andrew Sullivan</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Hillary Clinton has argued he is less qualified to be commander-in-chief than the Republican nominee, John McCain. She has said she doesn&#39;t know for sure he is not a secret Muslim. She has said his choice of church is unacceptable to her. She has said he deliberately wants many Americans to continue scraping by without health insurance.</p>
<p>Her campaign has insinuated he was once a drug dealer. The Clintons have publicly associated Obama with domestic terrorist William Ayers, with the militant Palestinian group Hamas and with anti-semitic demagogue Louis Farrakhan. </p></blockquote>
<p>I would agree that <b>early on</b> Hillary unfairly received the &#8220;villainess edit&#8221; but now she has more than earned it.</p>
<p>And I&#39;m going to tell you what I told Pete Abel:<br />Please stop wasting your time on the Politico. It&#39;s just another cog in the Fox News/Limbaugh/Drudge machine.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: T_Steel</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-150385</link>
		<dc:creator>T_Steel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/spin/19070/the-medias-role-in-the-obama-phenomenon-a-sign-of-deeper-trends/#comment-150385</guid>
		<description>When I first heard Senator Obama was going for Dem nomination, I immediately thought:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Black guy running for POTUS?  If he wins a primary early, he&#039;s going to get some serious LOVE.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When he won Iowa, we saw it.  The press went nuts.  Heck I even went a little nuts myself.  All I kept saying was that &quot;white people voted for him so he has a chance&quot;.  The media love was bound to happen since a Clinton is the hunt.  Obama was/is the new guy, Clinton is the old guard.  Give the love to the new guy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What I don&#039;t believe (which has been peddled in some circles) is that Obama is some sort of &quot;master puppeteer&quot; that is guiding MSM.  He&#039;s taking advantage of a situation (although that situation is evaporating).  Another thing is that Obama isn&#039;t from the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton school of black politics.  MSM is comfortable with roughing them up.  Obama is the &quot;unknown black dude that doesn&#039;t sound like Jackson/Sharpton and isn&#039;t a minister&quot;.  Seems like the MSM is trying to get a handle on Obama (Rev. Wright helped) but Obama is still a little hard to peg.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I first heard Senator Obama was going for Dem nomination, I immediately thought:</p>
<p><i>Black guy running for POTUS?  If he wins a primary early, he&#39;s going to get some serious LOVE.</i></p>
<p>When he won Iowa, we saw it.  The press went nuts.  Heck I even went a little nuts myself.  All I kept saying was that &#8220;white people voted for him so he has a chance&#8221;.  The media love was bound to happen since a Clinton is the hunt.  Obama was/is the new guy, Clinton is the old guard.  Give the love to the new guy.</p>
<p>What I don&#39;t believe (which has been peddled in some circles) is that Obama is some sort of &#8220;master puppeteer&#8221; that is guiding MSM.  He&#39;s taking advantage of a situation (although that situation is evaporating).  Another thing is that Obama isn&#39;t from the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton school of black politics.  MSM is comfortable with roughing them up.  Obama is the &#8220;unknown black dude that doesn&#39;t sound like Jackson/Sharpton and isn&#39;t a minister&#8221;.  Seems like the MSM is trying to get a handle on Obama (Rev. Wright helped) but Obama is still a little hard to peg.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
