It occurs to me where the Main Stream Media will have serious problems in the next two months
Election time is to broadcast and print media as Christmas is to big-box retailers; it is the gravy train and it is as predictable as a diurnal tide, a low followed by a high.
No one watches the test pattern, there must be action to draw the flies to the fire. Broadcast television in particular thrives on controversy and so there must always be one, there must be drama. For the last decade and a half that drama has been presented to us in the form of a "tight race". Sometimes the tight race is for the House, sometimes its for the Senate, always its a tight race for the Presidency, if the media is to be believed?
But why believe them? What indication is there that this year's race will in fact be close. Well, its all over the news, that's where it is. But is it out there in the streets? Well, reports of polling in the closest of states say otherwise, even the solid south is teetering, but would you know it to listen to television news? Would you know it to read any of a dozen of the nation's leading news papers? No, you would not. You'd think it was 2000 all over again, and for the news media that would be a good thing - it sells ink, it sells airtime.
Folks, this race isn't even close. We have a strong President who is running against a buffoon, we (Democrats) may not be universally loved but if nothing else we have maintained an air of maturity about us. People know who destroyed our economy and they have a personal notion of how it happened. So it is my contention that the self-serving media has a problem. They have to keep on convincing us that this is a horserace when anyone with eyes to see that he race is won and the other side's nag was never really even in the running.
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