Posted on 11/10/2015 1:09:53 PM PST by cann
There's no question that Trump has played the earned media game masterfully. We can quantify just how masterfully by comparing the news coverage data with polling data over the past year, as compiled by Real Clear Politics. It's clear from the data that TV news coverage over time tracks largely, but not entirely, with candidates' relative positioning in the polls. The better a candidate is polling, the more air time she or he tends to get.
Some candidates, though, get more coverage than their poll numbers suggest they should. Some candidates get a lot less. The outliers raise interesting questions about media fairness. Those questions go well beyond Trump; lately, he's not even the biggest overachiever on the air.
Also, Ted Cruz has real cause for complaint.
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Does ideology play no part in their decision-making process?
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That’s why he needs to find things to hype the crowd and thus get coverage....
Heck rent a rodeo arena, bring in some to the top bull riders, put $10,000 on the
line for the best rides, no charge to get in and see the show, a couple of clowns, etc
and in certain parts of the country people would come and tv would cover the event.
Any republican candidate that openly says “Not only will I build Trumps Wall but I will put Razor Wire along the top” will be polling in first place by Friday.
These political folks still live separate from the people and truly DO NOT understand the rage that is brewing.
Well, he did get coverage when he stood up to the moderators at the last debate. Not as much as he would have if he had done it at the first one.
I have no idea what it would take for him to get on the radar.
I’m just saying when the news leads with Trump people stop and watch, wondering what he did or said now.
When they lead with Carson people stop and watch, wondering what gaffe did he make now?
When they lead with Bush, people stop and watch, wondering what who said what about him.
Or what was said about him. And he was until just recently the obvious GOP candidate. Then there is the Bush/Clinton name thing.
That’s part of what I was trying to say. If people don’t know who he is, TV is not going to go out on a limb to give him coverage.
Hoe does ideology play into that scenario?
As long as the mainstream media hate conservatives, they will hate Ted Cruz. And right now Cruz is the most conservative candidate out there. Like a flock of vultures, the media are waiting for just the right opportunity to take him down. But during the last debate, Ted beat them to the punch.
As many of the grassroots voters are beginning to question the mainstream media drivel, they are listening to the more conservative candidates. And they are trying to cull out the bogus conservatives from the pack. So if the media hates them it is a good indicator.
But I think there's more to it than just the media, media only mirrors its uni-party allies:
Cruz is the only one up there who has already acted on his conservative beliefs, back when no one thought Trump or Carson had a chance of staying in the race Cruz was portrayed as the bad boy candidate, the one that would drive the GOP over the edge. The GOPe was and (IMHO) remains terrified that he'll win both primary and the presidency because he has already shown them that today's elite is on life support.
The data contained in the article might interest you.
It’s my suspicion that one of Trump’s conditions for him to get along with FOX News and get in their good graces again was that they downplay Cruz, who, if, everything (positions, ideology) were placed side by side, Cruz would outshine him any day of the week.
I would vote for Trump, but he’s not my first pick. He’d be good on some issues, but not the pro-life, pro-family, traditional values items. Those are the less important things to him, and to be quite honest, if America doesn’t wake up and realize that there is NO POLITICAL solution to our problems, then it won’t matter who we elect. It will be in vain. PERIOD!
I have felt the same way. Everyone (at least conservatives) knows the media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and either tunes out what they say or its significance is just not important because we know what filter it’s coming through. To help this trend, for the last two years, but especially but in the last half year, the MSM has shown its unhinged side more and more. They don’t even try to hide their bias. I watch none of them any longer. Wife and I get all our news on the net. Cable is on its way out and I’m hoping that helps some as well.
Cruz is unfairly not being covered as he should.
That’s an indisputable fact.
It’s also an indisputable fact that those who make the decision not to cover him are going to be in charge until after the election.
Anyone want to dispute what I just asserted?
Therefore, it may be entirely possible that conditions are not yet ripe for Cruz to be the nominee.
What other reasonable conclusions can there be?
I did read the article.
The media cover candidates who “go after each other”. Cruz talks issues, facts, logic, programs. Rarely does Cruz “go after” fellow candidates. Cruz got more media coverage for going after Republican leadership in Congress than at any other time. As Cruz pointed out to BSNBC, their questions were not designed to get answers to issues. They were designed to get candidates to attack each other.
Above is my answer in the Post. But there is also a question.
When Cruz campaigns, does he contact the media? Example, Cruz came to a book store near me. Did his campaign contact the media? I know that his campaign did not contact me. It was a Walker supporter who went out of his way to advertise the Cruz event.
Does Cruz even have on his staff a person with experience and success in contacting the media effectively?
My daughter wanted to (and did in her own way) publicize Rafael’s appearance in Buford. She tried to contact the Cruz campaign for help. There was apparently no such person in the campaign.
Ah, I see. That explains a lot.
re: conditions not ripe yet.
You have something there. In previous threads we’ve pretty much agreed that Cruz has intentionally held back because he did not want to peak too early.
Maybe the strategy is to be the fresh face and peak in 2016, not 2015. I sure hope he has a strategy..and tactics.. to improve when it counts.
Hoe does ideology play into that scenario?
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I can’t answer that but Cruz has got to be able to find ways to bring things into the discussion, hype up the crowd and show
different ones he can be on their side also. If he can’t find ways to attract voters from various ideologies then he’ll
be pigeoned into a section of the voters not to ever become a national leader. He’s going to have to find ways to attract
more than just the right wing and show others he can be an asset to their causes also.
Now that doesn’t mean he has to abandon his core beliefs. There are things that cut across lines, education, health care,
medical, national security, etc. I’m not smart enough to define the ways but I bet Cruz and some his people are.
I just checked the 4 top stories at yahoo for mentions (both positive) of candidates, all about the debate tonight. Picture, first, last or nick name count as a mention.
61 Jeb
48 Marco
36 Ben
13 Trump
11 Cruz
6 Cristie
1 each Paul, Walker, Kasich, Huck, Santorum, Jindal, Pataki, Gilmore (No Graham cracker)
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