The Edwards Media Blackout -- Now On Video!
January 17, 2008 -- 2:42 PM EST // //
Oh, this is fun -- not sure anyone has ever tried this before. The Edwards campaign -- which has for months felt shut out of the Dem primary by the political media's focus on Hillary and Obama -- is now resorting to black humor to draw attention to its media plight.
Camp Edwards has released a short vid lampooning the media's treatment of...itself:
Now, this blog has been admittedly obsessed with this topic, so of course this vid is getting covered here. I'm sincerely curious as to whether it will get covered elsewhere -- after all, it's news that one of the three major Dem candidates released a video chiding the media for not covering him, right?
On the other hand, perhaps reporters and editors will dismiss this as a stunt. And maybe it is kind of a stunt. But just to reiterate this point, for the past year now we've been hearing justifications for why the Edwards campaign doesn't deserve the same level of coverage as the two leading Dem superstar candidates. What coverage Edwards has received has all too often been marked by the kind of snide dismissiveness that A-listers at a private club might accord a serial party-crasher or second-rate celeb-impersonator.
I understand that Hillary and Obama are historic figures and that editors often have to make tough choices about how to allocate resources and so forth. And I'm not at all arguing that the media is solely to blame for the Edwards camp's problems. Just saying again that we should all admit that in a broad sense Edwards got screwed here, because, well, that's exactly what happened.
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