McCain viewed more negative by media

The People's daily news published an article on November 1, 2008, titled "Study finds McCain gets more negative news coverage". This article discusses a study that was done by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which found that John McCain only had 36 percent positive coverage compared to the 65 percent of positive coverage Barack Obama received. According to this article this study was started in June and was recently released. Despite the fact that this article does discuss Obama's approval by the media, it does not show favoritism towards any one candidate.