Media Study Shows 3-1 Coverage For Obama

  At least in The Washington Post and according to their ombudsman.

  Within the Post, Obama had three times as many front page stories as did John McCain since Obama essentially became his party's nominee. The story points out the same held true for photos, but that disparity has dropped since it was pointed out.

  Quote: This is not just a Post phenomenon. The Project for Excellence in Journalism has been monitoring campaign coverage at an assortment of large and medium-circulation newspapers, broadcast evening and morning news shows, five news Web sites, three major cable news networks, and public radio and other radio outlets. Its latest report, for the week of Aug. 4-10, shows that for the eighth time in nine weeks, Obama received significantly more coverage than McCain.

  There are some reasons given: Obama is the first mixed-race candidate; his epic battle with Hillary Clinton; his overseas trip to Europe and the Middle East; and the simple fact he's not near as well known as McCain.

  Do you think Obama is getting too much coverage? Is McCain getting slighted? Or is it that Obama just has more newsworthy events?