Carrie sends this from journalism.org, showing, I believe, how the media shapes our expectations simply by covering one candidate more than another. Meanwhile, the meaning of third place was also fungible last week. Mike Huckabee, a distant third in the GOP race, got sizably more media attention than did John Edwards among the Democrats.We'll see whether the recession takes over as the number-one news story in the next few weeks.
And New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is not running, got nearly as much coverage for showing up at a conference in Oklahoma as Rudolph Giuliani did for finishing fourth among Republicans.
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