Before everyone tries to kill the messenger that is FOX news:
According to PEJ statistics, Fox had the most balanced coverage of the past election. Now, PEJ (which general reflects the left leaning media itself) asserted in its comments that Fox was a right wing counter to left wingMSNBC and CNN was in the middle. But... that's only if you assume that the normal, "unbiased" coverage of the campaign should have been more negative to McCain as a matter of course. Look at the total media numbers on the bottom to see how "balanced" the coverage was not. CNNs numbers are close to the TOTAL COVERAGE. Actually, so are MSNBCs where McCain is concerned. Hell, Fox was even tilted a bit more towards Obama Smiley
http://www.journalism.org/node/13436#fn1
(FOXNEWS)
Positive Obama Stories 25%
Positive McCain Stories 22%
Negative Obama Stories 40%
Negative McCain Stories 40%
(MSNBC)
Positive Obama Stories 73%
Positive McCain Stories 10%
Negative Obama Stories 14%
Negative McCain Stories 43%
TOTAL COVERAGE (all media added together - 2,412 stories from 48 outlets)
Positive Obama Stories 36%
Positive McCain Stories 14%
Negative Obama Stories 29%
Negative McCain Stories 57%