Edwards camp takes aim at media

[IDemo]

Posted: 05:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — John Edwards' campaign is launching a full-on assault on the media for what they claim is inadequate and unfair press coverage of the former North Carolina senator's presidential bid.

"For the better part of a year the media has focused on two celebrity candidates,” Edwards Communications Director Chris Kofinis said Thursday. “And they continue to act as if there were only two candidates in the race, even after John Edwards beat Senator Clinton in Iowa and poll after poll show competitive races in Nevada, South Carolina and other key states."

On Thursday, the campaign went live with a Web site that sites several recent news headlines that only include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It also includes recent statistics from the Project for Excellence in Journalism that indicate that from January 6-11, Edwards received just a fraction of the news coverage allotted to his two rivals.

The campaign has even produced a Web video, "What about John Edwards?", that scrolls through several clips of media pundits discussing only Clinton and Obama, and ends with the results of a focus group that suggested Edwards won the most recent debate in Las Vegas.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[EFerrari]

1. Good! Go get 'em, John.

:kick:

[SeattleGirl]

2. Good for him!

I'm sick of what the media is doing!

[elizfeelinggreat]

3. hooray!

Great!

[JNelson6563]

4. Posted in DU Political Video forum, check this out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x85345

I thought it was pretty good.

Julie

[SaveAmerica]

5. Psst, I was the 5th R, we'll still have to get the word out about this, MSM

won't pick up on it.

[flyarm]

6. GO JOHN GO!!

[MasonJar]

7. The MSM sucks irrespective of our individual selection of a dem candidate.

I am proud to back Clinton, Edwards or Obama (alphabetical order) for president. The mainstream media are wringing their own throats and the Bushista is trying mightily to destroy the effectiveness of their chief adversary, the internet. Par for the course, n'est pas?

[OzarkDem]

8. All right, go Edwards!

Hold the media accountable!

[smokey nj]

9. Kick!!!!

[IDemo]

10. kickin' for John

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. K&R!

[cascadiance]

12. And Hillary hasn't won an untainted state election yet!

Hillary may NOT have won New Hampshire without Diebold's help, and we all know that Michigan was a SNAFU.

[pamela]

13. K&R

This media message is taking off. I'm seeing lots of folks on other, less political, forums saying that they don't like the way the media is acting like this is a two person race.

[liberalla]

15. That's good news!

good to hear!

Onwards, Upwards,
Edwards. 2008

[babydollhead]

14. kick