Interesting Case Study in How American Polticial Candidates Who Don't Tow the Corporate and War Agenda Get Sidelined
He got 7 percent of the vote in last Saturday’s Republican presidential primary, which was good for a distant fourth place finish. But Paul’s vote total was surprisingly high considering this fact: There was an almost-complete Ron Paul blackout in the Florida media.
Of the four candidates for the GOP nomination, Paul received less than one-twentieth the coverage of the fellow losers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in Florida print-based publications, according to a study by HighBeam Research.
In the week leading up to the state’s Jan. 31 primary, Paul appeared in less than 1 percent of all Florida print-based media coverage, the study found. Mitt Romney received 60 percent of the attention, while Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum each had 20 percent.
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