The Washington Post's Ombudsman, Deborah Howell, will wait until tomorrow's issue - five days after the election - to deal critically with the Post's efforts to throw the election to Obama. Here's what she found in her analysis of WaPo's coverage:
- OpEd pages: 32 favorable pieces on Obama vs 13 favorable McCain pieces, and 58 negative op/eds on McCain vs just 32 on Obama
- More Obama photos (311) than McCain photos (282), with Obama leading McCain in large pictures ,small pictures and color (can I say that) pictures
- More Obama news stories (946) than McCain news stories (786), which she explains in part by the longer Dem primaries, but admits that after the conventions, Obama got 626 stories and McCain got 584
Howell doesn't analyze the stories' content, which is unfortunate, but she admits that they were biased towards Obama...
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