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wgadget
04-23-2012, 01:59 PM
Fair article about how the media treats all the candidates, including Ron.

http://news.yahoo.com/media-favored-romney-over-obama-040100208.html

Snippet:

The tone may well change, of course, as the two settle in for a one-on-one contest, now that the other GOP contenders have lost their megaphone.

Rick Santorum “never enjoyed a sustained period of positive press,” because his victories were invariably followed by losses, says the study. And Newt Gingrich “had only one week…in which he enjoyed significantly more positive press coverage than negative”—the week that he won South Carolina.

The exception was Ron Paul, who drew consistently positive coverage most of the time. Alas, this was offset by the fact that the media virtually ignored him.

What the research makes clear is that media outlets assumed the power to declare the race over, regardless of how many states had voted. I argued that this was happening in March, and the project’s numbers back it up.