Word: mainstream
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...public is bombarded with information about presidential politics from the traditional sources of news, these outlets are producing less and less of the kind of information useful in deciding among candidates. And with the proliferation of "gotcha" questions, scandal hunts and polls, it is equally apparent that the mainstream media fail to provide candidates any real opportunity to air their views...
Thomas Patterson's 1993 book Out of Order cuts to the heart of the problems underlying the mainstream media's coverage of the presidential election process. His analysis is as persuasive as it is pessimistic; he argues that the press has failed miserably in its role as the organizing mechanism in recent campaigns because news reports tend to ignore policy themes in favor of the horse-race aspect of the political contest...
Buchanan has understood this fact and used it to his advantage in the early going. He is the only candidate in the field whose policy stances have gotten through to the public to any degree, and this is in spite of the mainstream media. Much like Clinton in 1992, he has sought to speak to the American people without the press serving its traditional intermediary role. The former television commentator and newspaper journalist has been appearing on local radio shows and writing newspaper columns, skirting the media filter which has largely intercepted the views of the other candidates...
...Many of his ideas are not in tune with those of Newt Gingrich and many of the mainstream Republicans," DeSimone said...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: A day after his presidential hopes were set back in New Hampshire once again, Bob Dole set about the work of salvaging his campaign by depicting the election as a contest between himself and Pat Buchanan. "This now is a race between the mainstream and the extreme," the Dole said. "It is a race between hope and fear. It's about freedom and it's about intolerance, which I will not tolerate." While Dole on the stump takes Buchanan to task, National Political correspondent Michael Duffy says that Lamar Alexander is the real target. "It's important...