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Ron Paul loyalists have been vindicated. After months of observations that the mainstream media was ignoring the libertarian standard-bearer, a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows just that: the Texas Congressman, who has consistently polled in the high single digits -- Real Clear Politics's aggregate poll currently has him at 8 percent -- has received the least overall coverage of any candidate. From May 2 to October 9, Paul appeared as the "primary newsmaker in only 2% of all election stories."
The study measured mainstream exposure by compiling a list of 52 mainstream news outlets across "newspapers, cable news, broadcast television, the 12 most popular news websites in the country, and radio news." To register as a story about the candidate, he/she had to be the focus of at least 50 percent of the story.
Source: The Atlantic Wire
Another study came out looking at his overall time in the debates showing him once more coming dead last.:
Equal Time? Romney Records One Quarter of Face Time at New Hampshire Debate - Smart Politics
For a candidate who, in many polls, gets third nationally as well as third, or even second, in the two critical states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and who is the third-biggest fundraiser in the field, this treatment does not in any way suggest an effort to fairly allocate time. If you can look at these numbers and not conclude that this is a concerted campaign against Ron Paul then you are pretty thick-headed. Ron Paul supporters have seen this media blackout so often and so blatantly that a moneybomb is coming up this Wednesday called Black This Out specifically addressing that reality with videos replete with examples of the media campaign to suppress Ron Paul. Even though it looks like it will raise far more money than other moneybombs this year most supporters already see it as a foregone conclusion that any results will also be blacked out.