I Shocked Myself - Page 2

Pio1980 · #11 08-09-2016, 10:49 AM

I wrote off the Libertarians when I grasped that their platform just hands the country over to those who benefit from deregulation.
It's feel-good Fascism.

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toxcrusadr · #12 08-10-2016, 05:01 PM

OK, but the question was about media coverage, not the party platforms.

I haven't heard back from NPR yet but I noticed this morning they had a blurb while I was getting ready for work that one of the candidates would be on a talk show later in the morning. I still think they (all the media) need to cover them on a more daily basis in the headline news. "Trump gave a speech about X; Clinton gave a speech about Y but responded to X" should be accompanied by something from the other parties.

toxcrusadr · #13 08-12-2016, 04:05 PM

Well I got a personal reply back from NPR.

Quote:

Thank you for contacting NPR.

We value your feedback about NPR’s coverage of third party campaigns. Your note has been shared with the appropriate staff.

NPR has published a number of pieces on third parties, including the Libertarian and Green Parties, as well as interviews with the parties’ candidates and supporters. Selected coverage includes:
[these were all hyperlinks]

Libertarian Candidates Pitch Themselves As Antidote To Partisanship
Green Party’s Jill Stein Wants To Be ‘Plan B’ For Bernie Sanders Supporters
Libertarians Tap 2 Former GOP Governors For White House
Green Party Finds Some Traction In Upstate New York

For complete coverage, search the program archives at npr.org.

Ron Elving, Senior Editor and Correspondent for NPR’s Washington desk, says that while NPR’s coverage of third parties may not amount to the same levels as the major two parties, “This is in keeping with what we believe to be the level of interest in these candidates on the part of our listeners. It is also in keeping with the fact that the two major parties have nominated every one of our presidents since before the Civil War.”

Thank you for listening, and for taking the time to share your perspective.

I appreciate the fact they took the time to write all that down for lil ol' me.

I am not sure how they gauge 'level of interest on the part of listeners.' My whole point was it is out of synch with the only way I can think of to measure that - polls. And saying that the two major parties have things all locked up is pretty obvious, and still misses the point of the media's role in that.

I still think NPR is better in this dept than most or all of the other major media, so I gave them credit for that and thanked them for writing back.