As a lifelong member of the media—mainstream and otherwise—I'm still baffled by the coverage choices sometimes. Almost as much as I am by the increasingly histrionic reactions by the readers (users/viewers/whatever we call them now).
Remember the Bush-Kerry campaign? And how George W. Bush deftly managed to label John Kerry a flip flopper? The media—who seemed to dislike Kerry almost as much as they despise Mitt Romney—ran with it. Made for a good story. Or at least an easy one. And journalists are all about the path of least resistance.
(By the way, what is about candidates from Massachusetts? Or multimillionaires? Or is it just Bay State blue bloods?)
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