An interesting article in the L.A. Times about media coverage of politics, or more appropriately the lack of coverage:
Another of the Lear Center’s research projects suggests a dispiriting answer. During the 1998 gubernatorial campaign, researchers monitored stations in California’s seven largest media markets to see how much of their broadcast news time was devoted to the campaign between 6 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. What they found was that the stations studied allocated just 0.45% — that’s right, less than one-half of 1% — of their news broadcasts to the election of a new governor.
It is sad, but this is the state of private media, and probably always will be. Angela had a good point on this topic; she says that they are a business and are in it to make money, and if the consultants they hire say politics is poison for the ratings then it makes sense not to cover it. Thats why I will stick with PBS and NPR for most of my news.