Resolved Question: What do you think of this new Pew Research study that confirms Ron Paul is getting blacked out by MSM?

17 October 2011, 7:54 am

Strangely enough, this study was released only days before Ron Paul's "Black This Out" moneybomb. Even if you don't support Ron Paul or his positions, doesn't it worry you that the American MSM essentially dictates the news narrative and distorts reality by basically pretending certain people don't exist (regardless of whether or not they are performing well when measuring all the traditional metrics)? http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-media-blackout-confirmed-133943628.html Ron Paul loyalists have been vindicated. After months of observations that the mainstream media was ignoring the libertarian standard-bearer, a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows just that: the Texas Congressman, who has consistently polled in the high single digits -- Real Clear Politics's aggregate poll currently has him at 8 percent -- has received the least overall coverage of any candidate. From May 2 to October 9, Paul appeared as the "primary newsmaker in only 2% of all election stories." While complaints about a lack of media coverage are typical coming from any struggling candidate, Paul boosters, and even some independent observers, have argued that Paul's media blackout is particularly striking considering his concrete successes on the campaign trail. By our count those successes include: Related: Another Poll Confirms Trump as Republican Frontrunner Winning the Los Angeles Country Straw Poll last week, with more votes than Mitt Romney and Herman Cain combined. On October 8, winning the Values Voter straw poll in Washington, D.C. Raising $8.3 million in the third quarter, putting his fundraising clout way ahead of other second-tier candidates such as Herman Cain, who raised $2.8 million in the quarter, Michele Bachmann, who raised $4.1 million, and Rick Santorum, who raised less than $1 million. Winning the California Republican Party straw poll in September. Taking a close second in the Ames straw poll in Iowa in August behind Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. @PoBoy............"but his insistence on forcing his religion down my throat through force of law" How exactly is he proposing to do that?... Read More »

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