| | Halperin: 'Disgusting failure' of 'pro-Obama' media
 The 2008 election involved more media bias than any other election in history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said at a conference on the 2008 presidential race, Politico reported.
"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."
The conference was a joint effort of Politico and the University of Southern California. Its purpose was to consult leading members of the media about the aftermath of the presidential election.
Halperin had plenty to say on the subject.
"The example that I use, at the end of the campaign, was the two profiles that The New York Times ran of the potential first ladies," Halperin said. "The story about Cindy McCain was vicious. It looked for every negative thing they could find about her and it case her in an extraordinarily negative light.
The story about Michelle Obama, however, was "like a front-page endorsement of what a great person Michelle Obama is," said Halperin, who maintains The Page, the political site of Time.
Although Halperin's comments drew little disagreement from most of the other members of the panel, Los Angeles Times writer Mark Barabak said Halperin was missing the bigger picture, MediaBistro reported.
"Look at it in it's totality, at the end of the day did the media serve its function, to inform people about who these two men are? Yes they did," Barabak said.
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