Everyone knows that Barack Obama came to UNH last week to speak to the students. In addition, everyone also knows that Hillary Clinton is trying very hard to get the Democratic Presidential nomination before he does. Then there's a problem. While we know a lot about the campaigns of Clinton and Obama, we know very little about the campaigns of other Democratic hopefuls, and even less about the Republican candidates.
For example, while Obama's visit to the Granite State was covered in great detail by all of the newspapers and many radio stations, there have been visits to New Hampshire by a number of other candidates including Clinton and Kucinich. Why were these visits not covered as intensively as the Obama visit? Is there a particular reason only a few candidates are getting all of the media attention? In "On The Media", there was a lot of attention given to this anomaly.
This isn't to say that people don't know who is running for president. If you go to the USA Today website, you can get a complete list of all the potential Presidential candidates. However, if you aren't looking for one of the "front runners" you will have to click on one of two links. You will either find your candidate under the heading "Other Democrats" or "Other Republicans". I will leave you with this thought: is the skew of media coverage going to leave these candidates with no hope, or did the mass media just figure out that they have no hope to begin with?
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