Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton’s first White House press secretary, sorts through the evidence of press bias in favor of Barack Obama in this fair-minded Vanity Fair blog post. Her verdict is that Obama has been getting both more, and more positive, attention from the press — for a variety of reasons, including ones that have nothing to do with favoritism (and others, presumably, that do). Her conclusion:
At the end of the day, this will be a long campaign, and what’s true in July may not be true in November. But what seems indisputably true—to quote another dazzling young Democrat who received disproportionately favorable media attention, John Kennedy—is this: “Life is unfair.”