Media Influence

Mike Warren, a student at Vanderbilt University, has written a column talking about the liberal media trying to effect the election, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle. This is a very well conceived and written paragraph:

The media’s template for the Republicans is clear: Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, two very electable (to use the irritating jargon) candidates, fight it out while no-name Huckabee rises above the fray for his few weeks of glory. Ron Paul is the weirdo with all that support from the pesky Internets, and Fred Thompson, as the most solidly conservative candidate, is trounced by a media that unfairly characterizes him as lazy and constantly sets him up to fail their own impossible standards. Huckabee will falter and fall by the wayside, having fulfilled his role as the distracter. Voters that flocked to Huckabee will be left to support either Giuliani or Romney only half-heartedly (when they should be supporting Thompson all along), and Republicans will go on to nominate whomever without the gusto needed to defeat the Democratic juggernaut of Hillary Clinton. Every major newspaper editorial, cable news commentator and nightly news anchor will present the situation in the same eerie formula, with comments about Republicans being “disillusioned” or some other buzzword permeating through the industry.