Disappearing A Candidate
First, we have The International Herald Tribune:
"The Associated Press Published: January 3, 2008
CHEYENNE, Wyo.: Don't forget Wyoming.
It's been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday's Iowa caucuses and next week's New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul have passed through since September.
Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have not.
"Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn't have occurred this early in the process," said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. "But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire."
Then, presenting the sanitized, Foxified version:
"The Associated Press Published: January 3, 2008
CHEYENNE, Wyo.: Don't forget Wyoming.
It's been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday's Iowa caucuses and next week's New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter have passed through since September.
Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have not.
"Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn't have occurred this early in the process," said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. "But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire."
Think whatever you want about the candidacy of Ron Paul or the legitimacy of the election process, this is just simply wrong. Faux Noise has the audacity to put this logo on that page:
"The Associated Press Published: January 3, 2008
CHEYENNE, Wyo.: Don't forget Wyoming.
It's been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday's Iowa caucuses and next week's New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul have passed through since September.
Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have not.
"Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn't have occurred this early in the process," said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. "But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire."
Then, presenting the sanitized, Foxified version:
"The Associated Press Published: January 3, 2008
CHEYENNE, Wyo.: Don't forget Wyoming.
It's been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday's Iowa caucuses and next week's New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.
Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter have passed through since September.
Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have not.
"Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn't have occurred this early in the process," said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. "But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire."
Think whatever you want about the candidacy of Ron Paul or the legitimacy of the election process, this is just simply wrong. Faux Noise has the audacity to put this logo on that page:
posted by nolocontendere at 5:59 PM
5 Comments:
Ron Paul? Who's he? :)
Hmm... if the mega-corporate media isn't covering him, he must one of the underdogs, I reckon...
It's so blatant now that it's unmistakable how the process is rigged.
Great Catch!!
Go go media deregulations -- free market works right? "The Market" will make good news right? It corrects itself right?
Wrong.
As much as I like small government, look at what deregulation has done, let's see: in energy in California, Enron laughed as grannies died of heat prostration; in banking last year, sub-prime predatory loans got so prominent even enormous multinational financial institutions are begging for billion-dollar handouts from their governments; and of course in Media, we get Murdoch directly telling his anchors what is "news" and what isn't.
It's a fucking joke.
"The Market" doesn't balance certain things, and this post is a perfect example of that.
It has been long clear to me that FoxNews is a criminal enterprise, and this is further evidence of this. Nice catch.
If any of you fellow travelers haven't seen it, there's a great video of protesters chasing Sean Hannity down the street yelling "Fox news sucks".
And jeebus it does.
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