Media as Hero Killer

High profile political campaigns are rough. The candidate's drunk driving arrest from 20 years ago could come up. So might the legal status of a former housekeeper. And watch out if the candidate has ever been intimate with anyone other than his or her spouse.

Political Commentator Jeff Greenfield believes that even the much-revered Abraham Lincoln would look less like Honest Abe and more like Lyin' Lincoln in the harsh glare of today's mass media.

Greenfield's commentary is in Yahoo! News.

Questions...

•What sorts of things do we find out about major political campaigns from the media?

•What don't we find out in their coverage?

•Does the media reinforce the political center, or the extremes?

•How is politics changing because of the Internet?