More bad news for the increasing irrelevance of newspapers and the mainstream media — candidates no longer need you or your endorsements in order to get elected.
Just asks Gov. Rick Perry:
But what is really surprising is the way Perry won. Sure, he did all the traditional things well. He raised a ton of money. He honed a clear and compelling message and communicated it aggressively with great discipline. And he galvanized the Republican base. But, he also did something shockingly unconventional. He told the press to take a hike.
Perry didn’t receive any endorsements from the major newspapers in the Lone Star State. And, the governor went out of his way to make sure he didn’t. Perry didn’t attend a single editorial endorsement meeting–knowing he would, therefore, be unlikely to gain any newspaper endorsements. And he didn’t. Which is what he wanted.
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Ronald Reagan started the idea of going over the heads of the press. Sarah Palin is tweeting her way around the press. And now Rick Perry has proved that newspaper endorsements really don’t matter anymore.
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Sorry off topic….I just saw an article about keith OGREman being re-instated at msnbc.
WTF.
I thought we’d have at least a month’s break before they re-instated the fool.
So what was his compelling message?
“Sorry about this illegal immigrant/border problem. Someone really should have done something about that over the last ten years.”
Dupes.
Border security is not the state’s responsibility. It’s the Federal government. Rick Perry is not to blame for the invasion of illegal immigrants across our border; D.C. is.
Yeah, I voted for Perry but I’m still bothered by his previous support for the TTC. And he doesn’t seem inclined to do much about illegal immigration. I’m beginning to believe that NAFTA was a big mistake.
Yes !
3 Cheers for Gov. Perry for thumbing his nose at the media re: endorsements !
I wasn’t really aware that he had done that but they deserved the snub.