The mainstream media’s reporting on the results of the Virgin Islands caucus in the GOP race for the presidential nomination is being described as “deceptive and abusive” after Texas Rep. Ron Paul won the popular vote and the reporting focused on the fact that Mitt Romney, under the district’s rules, took more delegates.
“Up until now, the media has hardly taken notice of the delegate counts as compared to its coverage of who wins each caucus’ presidential preference contest, and as a universally applied and accepted convention, when a major news source reports ‘(Candidate) wins (state or territory),’ they have always meant the candidate won the presidential preference poll at that state’s nominating contest, not the most delegates,” said W.E. Messamore in an analysis at the Independent Voter Network.
The rules of the caucus allow participants to vote for a candidate – a count that was won by Paul. Then there’s another vote for individual delegates, who are bound to a candidate, and it was there that Mitt Romney collected more support.
The headlines included “Romney Wins Virgin Islands GOP Caucus” by AP and similar statements from USA Today, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, CBS and others.
3 comments:
Because we all know how big a win the Virgin Islands are. The headline should be "Ron Paul Flails in Irrelevance, Media Continues to Give Him Appropriate Amount of Attention"
8:06-Laugh it up while you can....
You would think it would make people realize, when the crooked and bias media and politicians try to hide and stifle, including the gop, the progress of RP......he's been black balled because he dosent play their corrupt schemes.....if all the crooks are against him.....surely we the people should be for him!
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