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Alison Greene wrote this letter:
Dear Mr. Capus and Mr. Griffin:
I am writing, again, to alert you both to my dismay of the almost unbelievable rudeness and media bias toward Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign. As a supporter, (NOT a campaign employee) and one who has known and worked with her on issues that concern real people for over 15 years, I am truly appalled that I can no longer turn on the TV to your stations (used to be my favorites, despite the fact that my brother worked for CBS!) to get the days "news." You are becoming a FOX look-alike!
Mika B. should be made to do a disclaimer before she does ANY political reporting in any hour or timeslot; the fact that her father AND brothers work for other candidates is an important piece of information that your viewers should have to offset her constantly negative comments about Senator Clinton. Chris Mathews, whom I have written to complain about before, should have his medications adjusted. Really, I am not being facetious. Just because he worked for Tip O'Neill for a year or two 20 ( ?maybe longer) years ago does NOT make him a political expert and pundit. He was always rude and boorish to virtually all of his guests and I could never understand why people would appear on his show, because he is clearly only interested in one voice - his own!! Now, he is unbearable.
Tim Russert USED to be an honest broker. Even he cannot resist being a "kingmaker" and major player now. All these guys are so enthralled with their friend McCain, that they are unable to see that the qualities and reasons they think he is so suited to success are the same ones that doom Barack Obama - but this is never analyzed or pointed out.
I DO have a bias for Senator Clinton and I acknowledge this. She is the candidate for President that I am supporting. And, frankly, I think the media overkill may have helped her in Massachusetts, NJ and California. But I have to tell you, I have gotten dozens and dozens of emails from angry and frustrated friends and family who are, like me, unable to watch TV anymore and wondering where to go. And I am less angry but more saddened by the state of our TV choices in "news" these days. You wonder why people are turning off and getting their news and information from the internet?
Even Tom Brokaw looks and sounds disgusted. HE is a real, honest newsperson.
Sincerely,
Alison Greene, Esq.
alisonegreene@mac.com
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Sheila Scroggins, Colusa CA sent this to MSNBC about their coverage.
"I simply took a random time frame and kept track of the coverage, positives vs neg. Here is the letter. "
Dear MSNBC:
After the debate, I kept tally for 30 minutes post debate coverage of the presidential debate, the time period was 8:30 to 9:00 PST. During the time period there were 3 clips of Obama during the debate to 1 clip of Cinton during the debate. There were eight negative comments of Clinton, zero negative comment on Barack Obama, three positive comments on Clinton, three positive comments on Obama, two mutual positive comments on both together. In one segment Chris Mathews says (Clinton) "hit herself in the chin", followed immediately by a statement by Mathews that (Obama) "calmed things down".
Any way you slice it, your coverage, at least during this time period was very lopsided. Now maybe, I just happened to hit a segment that is not representative of the coverage as a whole, but I doubt it. MSNBC needs to do what I did and scrutinize their coverage. Maybe a consultant is in order to keep the pundits from being so sexist. Your coverage as well as other networks has probably cost American women, and America in general a good president. Chris Mathews statement is especially telling, it is quite condescending to women. All these women crying out for fair coverage, can't all be wrong. This is so unfortunate and sad that in America today, that the main stream media is so biased against women.
