Why is Obama so Popular in Europe? - Frank Esser

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/04/How_Does_News_Media_Impact_Elections

Frank Esser, Media Research Professor at the University of Zurich, explains why Barack Obama enjoys high popularity ratings throughout Europe, and why Europeans in general express such a high level of interest in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

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Frank Esser is Professor and Chair of International & Comparative Media Research in the Department of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich. He was assistant professor of mass communication at the University of Mainz and the University of Missouri-Columbia, and visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on cross-national studies of news journalism and political communication. He has published five books including Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges and sixty book chapters and journal articles. Esser is on the editorial boards of Journalism and The International Journal of Press/Politics, and serves as Vice Chair of the Journalism Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).

In Zurich he is co-director of the NCCR Democracy, a National Center of Competence in Research funded by the Swiss Science Foundation, to study the impact of globalization and mediatization on Western democracies. A current project compares election campaign coverage in nine countries (U.S., Mexico, Spain, Italy, Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland) and aims at identifying the underlying differences between political news cultures. Another project investigates the degree of media-centeredness of election campaigns in various countries.

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[k3304]

@demdanglibruls , there was no slip up when i mentioned the auto Saab to someone else in context to them, not you. President Teenager needs to go back organizing South Chicago and not making our economy worse. He's One Term.

[demdanglibruls]

@k3304 I've never heard someone use basketball and skateboarding as insults. Is that all you can come up with? What about the debt or economy? Sports is not a very valid criticism of a president. "Blackness" sounds pretty racist. Saab a country? I'll let that go because people make slipups like that all the time.

[mobspeak]

@k3304 The U.S. has one half black president. The U.S. was built on slavery. The U.S. love black people now I guess.

[TheJahma]

I would vote for Obama, if I was 18 and had a vote

[townerist]

Obama is a great President

[TheTruthNow000]

@k3304 ... I don't need to explain President Obama to you racist cracker. He's going to be easily re-elected, just as you will continue to easily be a dumb cracker.

[TheTruthNow000]

@k3304 ... Another thing you worthless racist son-of-a-bitch. You had a problem with me using the word "cracker," but no problem with him using the word "nigger." Why is that asshole?

[k3304]

im done talking to you because your "blackness" is coming out. You are no longer worth my time anymore. Youre as juvenile as your "boy" Barry. Goodbye !

[k3304]

@TheTruthNow000 , said that Saab was going bankrupt like the rest of Europe. Hey, you still think that Barry is a teenager ? He plays basketball and skateboards for fun. Barry is an adolescent who needs to grow up.

[TheTruthNow000]

@k3304 ... owned by who dumbass. At least I didn't think that Saab was a fucking country. What a complete dumbass you are.