Posted
1:09 PM
by Gene
And to compound the irritation a colleague of Jim "MURROW!" Fallow suggests ways to improve presidential-campaign news coverage -- namely, by uttering more platitudes urging presidential-campaign news coverage be improved.Especially early on, it would be nice if journalists gave weight to viability metrics other than name recognition, fund-raising capacity, and public opinion polls (all of which are often closely related). Corporations always leave open the possibility that the product of the future is something presently unknown to the masses. What if The New York Times
, The Huffington Post
and National Review
all convened small focus groups open only to relatively unknown candidates? Small gatherings of informed voters could evaluate candidates up close, weighing their relevant experience and hearing their takes on the issues in intense sessions that might reveal individuals worthy of wider attention.TRANSLATION: More finely-honed guesswork. SHUT UP, CONOR!