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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Dissecting The Media Hype On Hillary By Jeff Cohen Let me acknowledge my bias up front: I subscribe to the old-fashioned notion that party activists and voters -- not the mass media -- should be the main players in nominating political candidates. As for Hillary Rodham Clinton, her New York Senate candidacy -- launched by political reporters left dangerously idle by the closing of Monica-gate -- rocketed through the studios of Crossfire and Nightline to the covers of Newsweek and Time. A real grassroots mobilization of the media elite. It wasn't until the candidacy was already in orbit that the candidate herself had time to seriously consider her candidacy. "Let's admit right from the outset," declared Chris Wallace in opening a Feb. 17 Nightline show on Hillary and the Senate race, "that what we're indulging in tonight may be one of the better examples of hype." And indulge they did. What's happened is that many in the media have grown too bored or self-important to cover politicians. Nowadays, they prefer covering celebrities. No sooner had Sen. Daniel Moynihan announced his retirement than political reporters began bandying names of "viable" Democratic candidates that sounded more like a celebrity A-list. There was a Cuomo and a Kennedy. And now a Clinton. Lest the public become suspicious that the media pundits see themselves as too important to cover a run-of-the-mill politician, the conventional wisdom is served up that only a supercandidate can win -- only a star like Hillary could defeat likely GOP candidate, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2583 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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