03-03-2011, 10:38 AM
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Junkie
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Why isn't the U.S. talking up investing more in the tar sands in Alberta?
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How about the duplicitous nature of the media and the Obama administration?
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Bush Links To Oil Rise Ran 15-To-1 Vs. Obama
By JULIA A. SEYMOUR Posted 03/02/2011 06:34 PM ET
Unrest in the Mideast has hit American consumers hard, driving up gas prices that had already been above $3-a-gallon since Dec. 23. The national average for gasoline hit $3.36 on Feb. 28, the highest ever for the month of February, according to the Associated Press. But the amount of network news coverage of rising gas prices did not reflect it.
All three broadcast networks together averaged just one story about rising gas prices per day. In contrast, when gas prices rose similarly in 2008, the networks averaged more than one story, per network, per day.
It took 24 days, from Feb. 1 to Feb. 24, for the national average for unleaded gasoline to climb from $3.101 to 3.228. The last comparable period of "eye-popping" gas prices: the 20 days between Feb. 21 and March 11, 2008, when the national average climbed from $3.086 to $3.227.
Some 2008 reports, including the March 6 "Early Show," exaggerated the already rising prices by emphasizing extremely high prices. That morning CBS showed viewers a California gas pump charging $5.19 a gallon for regular unleaded before mentioning the national average for that day, which was $2.02 lower.
Some 2011 reports have reversed that trend by downplaying the impact of currently high gas prices on consumers by using words like "inching" to describe rising prices, or calling U.S. prices "a bargain compared to Europe."
The Business & Media Institute examined all the broadcast network news reports mentioning gas prices during each of those time periods and found ABC, CBS and NBC aired more than 2 1/2 times more stories (63 stories to 24) in 2008 than they did in 2011.
But it was more than just the amount of coverage that showed the media's willingness to spin gas prices one way under Bush and another way under Obama. In 2008, network reporters mentioned "Bush," the "president" or "government" in gas price reports 15 times more often than in 2011 under President Obama (15 stories to 1). A number of stories portrayed Bush as out-of-the-loop when asked about the possibility of $4 gas and hadn't yet heard that prediction.
In contrast to the 15 reports referencing the Bush when gas prices were "through the roof," the only 2011 story to mention Obama has been NBC "Nightly News" on Feb. 24, when Tom Costello quoted Obama as being "optimistic."
Obama is the most anti-oil president in years and has taken specific steps to limit domestic oil production, including a moratorium on deepwater drilling after the BP spill and the recent imposition of new regulations on the industry. Not a single one of 2011 stories about rising gas prices that BMI examined brought up any of Obama's anti-oil policies despite the impact they could have on supply and prices.
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Bush Links To Oil Rise Ran 15-To-1 Vs. Obama - Investors.com
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Last edited by aceventura3; 03-03-2011 at 10:41 AM..
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