Who Got the Most Bang out of CPAC?

[jct74]

Who Got the Most Bang out of CPAC?
Rand Paul may have won the straw poll, but Scott Walker garnered the attention.

By David Catanese
March 2, 2015 | 6:58 p.m. EST

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., may have won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll for the third consecutive year.

But it was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who got the most bang out of his time at the confab, according to a measurement of media impact by GOP consulting firm The Gage Group and social analytics company General Sentiment.

Walker, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, earned the highest "media value share" from the annual gathering of conservative activists and presidential hopefuls, garnering 25 percent. Bush gobbled up 23 percent.

The graphic below represents calculations based off a totality of media mentions and public conversations from Thursday, when CPAC kicked off, through Monday.

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read more:
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ru...or-jeb-bush-who-got-the-most-bang-out-of-cpac

 

[LawnWake]

Just another attempt to nullify Rand's win. I mean, the numbers don't lie and it's an interesting research, but the way the article was phrased it's almost like saying "Scott Walker TRULY won". But who is the only guy that won the strawpoll 3 years in a row, other than Reagan?

 

[Warlord]

Rand Paul wins. sorry neocons,

 

[Barrex]

Would i be hard to have constant monitoring of megia coverage of potential candidates?

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Would i be hard to have constant monitoring of megia coverage of potential candidates?

Just national or local too?

There is something like 8-10 major players (TV) and it should be possible to scan text for the hearing impaired and hit on keywords. There is special hardware available to do this sort of thing, but something could be home-brewed fairly cheaply. Generally cable boxes will only monitor/record 2 channels at once. This is a topic I've been interested in for a while, but I'm a bit lacking in knowledge. It would basically be a DIY TiVo that keyed and started recording on a text feed and would need to pull from RAM the last 30 seconds or so.

Scraping news aggregators for print material would be easier.

anyone have other ideas on how to do this?

-t

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I imagine there are transcripts available online for all the TV news shows.

For instance, here they are for Fox's "The Five."

Not being technically savvie, I'd just manually CTRL+F for the names and take a count.

...shouldn't take more than a couple minutes per day.

In fact, if I get the ambition maybe I'll start a thread for this.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Well. Hm. I think media attention matters most where the issues are actually acknowledged and debated in the correct context if they are mentioned or debated at all. Those platforms are where representatives (if they are mentioned) benefit the most. Especially once you go global. I don't think of "The Five" as media. That kind of pablum is more like entertainment for political junkies who don't know a whole lot about a little bit. For a very shortsighted demographic.

Here is a good example of junior's name mentioned in context in a beneficial way. Well...beneficial in scope. We'd do well to see what is happening in the wonderful world of media wars moving into the cycle. That is important.

Anyhoo..."Bang"...

“In the Middle East, one form of tyranny often replaces another,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. “When secular despots are overthrown, chaos ensues and radical Islam grows stronger.”

RT’s special report on the Islamic State: Newly formed, newly armed, newly funded


Relevant reading...
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...uide-to-Mainstream-Media-American-TV-Networks
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-RT-on-same-challenge-list-as-ISIS-Boko-Haram

 

[Feelgood]

Dejavu?

 

[phill4paul]

according to a measurement of media impact

Duh. Scott Walker for president because...media.

 

[Crashland]

Duh. Scott Walker for president because...media.

Enjoy it while it lasts, Scott.

 

[acptulsa]

We did. We get to start making fun of the spin-and-smear machine early enough to get through to people ahead of the election. If we do our jobs right, we can parlay this silliness into a situation where everything the media is saying next year is being laughed at by 85% of the American population.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

LOL. The media complex pushes their favorite candidates and then pretends that is some kind of meaningful measure of popularity. They're pretending that their own reporting is news. The only thing this statistic reveals is which candidates the media is biased in favor of.

 

[acptulsa]

LOL. The media complex pushes their favorite candidates and then pretends that is some kind of meaningful measure of popularity. They're pretending that their own reporting is news. The only thing this statistic reveals is which candidates the media is biased in favor of.

This cycle is particularly amusing, since no one at all wants to have anything at all to do with Jeb Bush, but they have their orders and they keep pushing him. You can tell that most of the "reporters" themselves are, like, seriously? But they have their jobs.

If ever the less foolish end of the American population had a golden opportunity to expose the Military Propaganda Complex for what it is, that time is now. I hope we're up to the challenge.

 

[jct74]

I imagine there are transcripts available online for all the TV news shows.

For instance, here they are for Fox's "The Five."

Not being technically savvie, I'd just manually CTRL+F for the names and take a count.

...shouldn't take more than a couple minutes per day.

In fact, if I get the ambition maybe I'll start a thread for this.

I just made a thread about how you can search transcripts across all of cable news television in one place. Your post prodded me to make that thread. Check it out here:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-of-cable-news-television-dating-back-to-2009

 

[specsaregood]

Enjoy it while it lasts, Scott.

Yup, just ask carson.