This is quick blog just to register my frustration to the continuing culture of celebrity candidates in the news media. When I logged on to vote on who I thought won the ABC debate, Joe Biden was third after Obama and Clinton, two candidates with far greater numbers in their troops to vote. He was well ahead of Edwards. He had given fantastic, straight-forward answers to the questions. All this, yet on the debate highlight clips on ABC's website, there was not one clip of Biden talking. They even had many Republican candidates giving responses to the debate--but no Joe.
This is a disturbing trend in the media. ABC is far from the only guilty party. On Meet the Press today, a panel of political pundits discussed candidates for 25 minutes. On the Democratic side, only Obama, Clinton and Edwards were discussed. The pundits were equally unfair on the Republican side--discussing only Guilliani, Romney and the as yet undeclared Thompson. Huckabee, with his surprisingly strong showing in last week's straw poll was not mentioned. The last I heard, the press was supposed to be covering the news, not anointing contenders.
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