Off Message - The '60s Fetish

by William Powers

Sat. Mar. 1, 2008


Some say that the media have fallen hard for Barack Obama. Others note that journalists once carried a torch for John McCain and may well do so again. Watch the coverage closely, however, and it turns out that the most powerful media bias in this campaign is not for a person but for a decade.

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