It looks like the "working the refs" media strategy of the right over the past 30 or more years is paying off. Here are the facts from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism:
"Obama has received the most unremittingly negative press of any of the presidential candidates by a wide margin, with negative assessments outweighing positive ones by four to one.
Pew found that just 9 percent of the president’s coverage was positive, while 34 percent was negative — a stark contrast to the 32 percent positive coverage and 20 percent negative that it found Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the most covered Republican, received.
'His coverage has been substantially more negative in every one of the last 23 weeks of the last five months — even the week that Bin Laden was killed,' Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said of the president’s treatment in the media compared with that of the GOP field...
The top four most favorably covered candidates, the study found, were all tea party favorites: Perry was followed by Palin, with 31 percent positive coverage and 22 percent negative; Michele Bachmann, with 31 percent positive coverage and 23 percent negative; and Herman Cain, with 28 percent positive coverage and 23 percent negative.
Mitt Romney’s positive and negative coverage were almost in a dead heat at 26 percent and 27 percent, respectively."
(Image: "Hold the presses! I have new copy from the Republican National Committee!")
