The Main Stream Media and the Marketing Destruction of Mitt Romney

The main stream media has done a great job hampering, hindering, and slyly biasing the Presidential race in 2008. I offer the following evidence as my observations of media bias against Mitt Romney.

1. Mitt Romney's political strategy was leaked early to the media. Including his thoughts on how he wanted to win the race. The strategy outlined the strengths and weaknesses of both his opponents and himself. This leak allowed the main stream media to have a prepared script months ahead of time for their articles, political punditry, and Romney shots prepared (Romney even noted in this strategy that he may be attacked as a flip-flopper - which the media exploited).
I almost never saw the news media discussing in depth the other candidates’ strategies. This included Romney's campaigning strategy, like which states he was focusing on, where he wanted a strong win and what he was doing. Why is this important? Because the media gave Huckabee, McCain, and other anti-Romney groups specific targets for their calling, mailings and whisper campaigns.

2. Polls were used as a way to get out the vote against Romney. Over and over in states that Romney looked close to winning, the media provided a lot of news coverage that he might be ahead. For instance, in Florida and again in California, polls and pundits made a huge deal that Romney was in the lead. This sly coverage by the media energized groups against Mitt Romney and in some cases lulled some of Romney's supporters from the polls because they thought he had enough votes.

3. The media kept everyone, except for Mitt Romney, within easy click-reach online. This morning (Super Tuesday) when I looked up CNN news, there on the front page with a huge title with the words John McCain picks up key Super Tuesday endorsement. Never mind that the news of this particular endorsement was three days old.

I scrolled down the page further and on the right were eight articles. Four of the articles were about McCain; two were for Huckabee and absolutely NOTHING to be found on Romney. This occurred over and over. Why is this? Straight and simple - it is MONEY! My belief is that the main stream media recognized Romney has a lot of money. They are basically positioning the media coverage to force Romney to spend money. From all the free news conference coverage for Huckabee since Iowa, to the many free articles and news coverage for his digs, dings, and jabs at Romney. The media coverage was not balanced giving many more stories to Huckabee and McCain.

4. The role of Jay Leno, Stephen Colbert, and David Letterman cannot be underestimated. Oh yeah, and don't forget Connan O'Brien (didn't he and Colbert make Huckabee?).

I am deeply disappointed with the major news media outlets. I feel they took away the choice of the American people by presenting the terrible side of Romney and allowing the other candidates to broadcast their attacks for free. I will end here as I might say some cruel things about some specific reporters at specific news outlets.