Google Trends for 1/26/12

[wgadget]

Media blackout confirmed.

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=ron...+rick+santorum&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0

 

[sailingaway]

Yeah, Pew just came out with another study, the drop in what coverage there was is precipitous

 

[runamuck]

What exactly do you expect to be reported? "Ron Paul, who is home in Texas before tonights debate enjoyed a warm bath this morning"

 

[Student Of Paulism]

What exactly do you expect to be reported? "Ron Paul, who is home in Texas before tonights debate enjoyed a warm bath this morning"

How dare you forget to mention while reading Hayek and Von Mises textbooks?

 

[runamuck]

How dare you forget to mention while reading Hayek and Von Mises textbooks?

 

[rp2012win]

This is why paul needs to come out on fire tonight. Cause a massive controversy with bombastic statements and accusations against CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. That will get coverage.

 

[eugenekop]

I think we should think long-term. In the long term we want our movement to be civic, rational, balanced and appealing. Controversies or useless accusations that only distract from the message are not the way to achieve that. It might help Ron in this election cycle, but I think it is not something that we as a libertarian movement should encourage.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Ron Paul is working hard, having a ton of campaign events. He is just ignored. His endorsement from Tom Davis was ignored. They are just ignoring him. When they do perfunctorily mention his name, it must be coupled with the word unelectable. That is the memo that has gone out. Ignore and downplay Ron Paul no matter what.

To blame this on Ron, as runamuck and Student Of Paulism do above, upsets me. You're saying Dr. Paul is lazy and worthless, so he deserves to be ignored, because after all there's no news to report about him, he's just chilling out all the time. Right, guys.

Do you never watch the TV news? I've been watching it lately, just for research kind of, and the vast majority of the coverage is not about "events" anyway. They hardly ever have coverage like "Romney was in Stupidville today, he spoke to a group of 100 grayhairs, and here's a clip. Meanwhile, Gingrich was in Bloodlust pumping his visionary new Mars plan to a group of bedridden seniors, take a listen. Ron Paul had a rally at Big U, where over 1000 students showed up, here's how that went."

No, the coverage is not about happenings, and definitely not about issues, it's about the horserace. It's all about "analysis" and prognostication and commentary. Watch 4 hours of TV election coverage and you might see 5 minutes of footage of the candidates actually talking, with 3.9 hours of O'Reilly telling us what it all means, Redstate.com guy offering his thoughts, various bimbos offering their even more vacuous thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts. So-and-so is up two points in the polls! Joining us to talk about what this all means is Phony and Has-been; welcome, guys. They choose what to dissect and analyze to death. They could be talking ad nauseum about Ron Paul just as easily as they do Santorum. But they don't. Never have. They don't want to. They don't have to. So they choose not to.

You go totally off the deep end, in my view, to try to blame lack of media coverage on some kind of failure to provide coverage fodder on Dr. Paul's part. It's not an accurate assessment. Also, it's very insulting to him. This man deserves some respect.

A lot of respect, in my opinion.

 

[IDefendThePlatform]

I think we should think long-term. In the long term we want our movement to be civic, rational, balanced and appealing. Controversies or useless accusations that only distract from the message are not the way to achieve that. It might help Ron in this election cycle, but I think it is not something that we as a libertarian movement should encourage.

If you're saying we shouldn't expose the blatant media bias/blackout then I completely disagree. Actually, with the way this election has been going I'm starting to agree more with those around here who say that undermining the MSM is our #1 job. Ron Paul's message is terrific, when people hear it and are exposed to it through the internet and local media it dominates. It's only when the national MSM attacks or marginalizes us that our numbers dip. We still have a chance with Ron going directly to the voters in Maine, Minnesota, etc... We've just got to keep up the phone from home and spreading the message ourselves.

 

[eugenekop]

I don't think our efforts should be spent on convincing people that the media is biased. People already know that, and those who do not, will be able to learn it from multiple other sources. Let others spend money and energy on showing media bias. Different organizations do that already. I think our energy should be 100% spent ont the liberty message. We do need to expose the media when they outright lie, but I don't think its very productive to fight the media. Again, let's use other's efforts to do that, and let's focus on our real message, our comparative advantage.

 

[eugenekop]

Our comparative advantage is the liberty message and our arguments. It is not our organizational ability to fight the media.