The Media's Calculated Contrivances

We're all familiar with the fact that the mainstream media makes a pig's breakfast out of Presidential Primaries. They deliberately pick and choose which candidate or candidates should be favored over others when it comes to press coverage.

Searching Google News for the winner of each primary or caucus, we used the following specific terms to gather data:

The first number inside the parentheses is the approximate number of results found. For comparison, the second figure is the number of delegates won by the candidate (according to CNN).

Huckabee won in Iowa (2,365 - 17)

Romney won in Wyoming (270 - 8)

McCain won in New Hampshire (5,145 - 7)

Romney won in Michigan (1,239 - 24)

Romney won in Nevada (1,173 - 18)

McCain won in South Carolina (3,806 - 19)

Of the three states he was declared the winner, Mitt Romney received the most coverage for his win in Michigan, about 1,239 stories, where he earned 24 delegates.

By contrast, John McCain earned only 7 delegates in his New Hampshire win but enjoyed the publicity from 5,145 news stories.

To look at this another way, the most stories written about any of Romney's three wins was 1,239 for Michigan while the fewest stories written about any of his opponents' wins was 2,365 for Huckabee's win in Iowa.

If Mitt Romney, who has gained more delegates than any other Republican candidate, were to receive the same coverage for his primary/caucus wins, it's reasonable to believe he might be enjoying the frontrunner status that too many in the myopic mainstream press are giving to McCain today.

This is just another example of the MSM reporting only what they want "We, the People" to see, hear, and know.

What's worse, if voters accept everything the press delivers and swallow it whole and elect the wrong man, the People will end up choking on it ... and by that time it will be too late.