What If You Ran for President and Nobody Noticed?

Today's medianote is from a National Public Radio story about the unequal amount of coverage that the news media gives to the various presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton ... lots 'o media coverage. Barack Obama ... news folk can't get enough of the guy. John McCain ... no problem with news coverage.

But what about Bill Richardson or Mike Huckabee or other announced candidates who, although they have impressive backgrounds (both are governors), really don't get a whole lot of media coverage? Who says that one candidate is worthy of being his or her own press groupies and another is not? And what about minor party candidates? They generally get very little exposure in the news media.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #20



***FRIDAY'S FIELD TRIPS Remember, MC101 classes do not meet on Friday, March 2. No Club MediaNote post on Friday, either. It is field trip day. We go to the Los Angeles Times in the morning (choose from tours starting at 9:15 or 10:45; we meet in the lobby at First and Spring) and the Los Angeles Central Library in the afternoon (we meet at 2 p.m. in the McGuire Garden and finish up around 3:30). Between the two tours we have a Downtown Walking Tour, highlighted by lunch at the Grand Central Market. See your field trip flyer for details.