{"id":10781,"date":"2007-05-12T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10781.html"},"modified":"2007-05-12T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T15:30:47","slug":"will-the-haircut-obsessed-political-media-cover-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/will-the-haircut-obsessed-political-media-cover-it\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Will the haircut-obsessed political media cover it?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If a Republican presidential candidate snubs some working-class farmers, and the media doesn’t report it, does it really make a sound?<\/p>\n

When Greg Sargent first noted<\/a> on Thursday that Rudy Giuliani’s campaign cancelled an event at Deb and Jerry VonSprecken’s family farm because they’re not millionaires, he asked in his first paragraph, “[W]ill the haircut-obsessed political media cover it?”<\/p>\n

I’ve been wondering the same thing. The blogs have been all over this story, and I’ve heard that John McCain’s campaign has been sending information out to its email lists, but how’s the coverage been in the traditional media?<\/p>\n

Based on searches on Lexis-Nexis and Google News, it seems the political establishment doesn’t care. I found one article — in the Des Moines Register<\/a>, which presumably appreciated the local angle. <\/p>\n

That’s it. The story hasn’t been mentioned in any of the major dailies, the wires, or on any national TV broadcasts.<\/p>\n

C’mon, assignment editors, this is an easy one.<\/p>\n

Ana Marie Cox noted<\/a> yesterday that Giuliani “could’ve probably gotten away with tap-dancing his way through the abortion issue, but I somehow don’t think any campaign — R or D — could weather this.” It’s actually pretty easy when the media blows it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If a Republican presidential candidate snubs some working-class farmers, and the media doesn’t report it, does it really make a sound? When Greg Sargent first noted on Thursday that Rudy Giuliani’s campaign cancelled an event at Deb and Jerry VonSprecken’s family farm because they’re not millionaires, he asked in his first paragraph, “[W]ill the haircut-obsessed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}