Slate magazine’s Chief Political Correspondent, John Dickerson, recently produced a video report on the use of the internet by GOP presidential candidates. It includes virtually every candidate except Ron Paul, who happens to be the #1 most popular candidate on the internet – by a landslide.
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NOTE: I emailed him and he responded by saying he didn’t find Ron Paul’s campaign footage “to be very compelling or interesting”.
Ironically, he wrote this piece on Dr. Paul back in May: Don’t Shut Up Paul. I guess his masters weren’t pleased.
I saw 4 clips of Ron Paul in the video. While he didn’t mention his name, he didn’t mention MOST of the candidates’ names.
Non-issue.
Next.
And to be fair, this was about videos posted BY the campaign, not their supporters.
Man, are we Ron Paul supporters really THIS hyper-sensitive that we have to see a conspiracy in everything?
Non-Alarmist,
Are you sure you’re a supporter? This _is_ an issue. I watched the video, and to set the record straight, 6 candidates were mentioned by name:
Brownback, Romney, F. Thompson, Giuliani, Huckabee, and Tancredo. Additionally, this was a piece that was about more than videos posted by campaigns. The final conclusion from Dickerson’s video is that the staged, pretend authenticity of candidates’ videos are themselves not as compelling as the true unguarded ones. As an example of his case, he has a plethora of non-staged examples to use. He didn’t. I guess he leaves it up to the viewer to conclude that he means that Ron Paul supporters are using this media best out of all the candidates.
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