Poor Obama? CBS Touts Study Showing Obama Most-Joked About; Skips Deca

Jeffrey Meyer
August 6th, 2013 12:04 PM
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning pounced on a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) showing that President Obama is now the butt of more jokes on late night TV than any other politician. "Since his re-election, late-night comedians have aimed 300 jokes at the President," CBS's Jeff Pegues announced. "That's only 100 fewer than all of those directed at Republican politicians…
 

Study Reveals Republicans Lie More...Or That Politifact Has a Serious

Tim Graham
May 29th, 2013 1:48 PM
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University has a new study noticing that the "fact-checking" site Politifact.com over the first four months of Obama's second term found Republicans were cited as dishonest three times as often as Democrats. Even in the first three weeks in May, while the Obama scandals piled up -- from Benghazi to the IRS to the DOJ phone-records…
 

CMPA's Lichter Finds the Obvious: Media Overwhelmingly Positive on Oba

Justin McCarthy
October 20th, 2008 1:55 PM
It is no surprise that Barack Obama receives much better treatment in the media than John McCain, but the non-partisan Center for Media and Public Affairs actually conducted a study that concluded just that. The Center’s evaluation found that since both candidates were formally nominated "Senator Obama on the network evening news shows have been 65% positive, compared to only 36% positive about…