For awhile now, the media has been covering the elections and all of the candidates who are hoping for presidential nominations. The coverage of these candidates has amounted to what might be one of the longest bits of campaign coverage ever. However, the press isn’t getting all of the answers right, and they aren’t putting the correct ideas into the heads of the voters when it comes to some of the issues, quite often the issues dealing with the GOP.
For instance, a straw poll was most recently held in Ames, Iowa. Mitt Romney was shown to win, with Mike Huckabee coming in second place. This was what was reported in the press, but the press failed to note that the leading prospects in the presidential race, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and John McCain did not participate in the straw poll at all. The press, however, made it seem like Mitt Romney had beaten all of the other candidates, which of course led to a bounce in the polls for him for a few days, along with Huckabee.
It wasn’t just that the press didn’t tell the whole story. The also didn’t tell it well. Even after the poll got national news coverage, a separate poll done said that less than half the nation’s voters even knew that Romney had won at all.
What this shows is that there is a major problem when it comes to the way that the press is reporting these issues and outcomes. The nation is not being very well informed, and something has to change about that, and quickly.
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