Networks Ignore 3rd Party Candidates

freedomfighter writes "The major media networks have been willfully ignoring alternative voices in this presidential election, focusing only on the two major parties, Democrat and Republican."

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A Function of Polarization

[Omega1045]

I think this is a biproduct of the polarization in this nation. Look at our candidates. A conservative Republican calling himself a moderate, and one the most liberal Democrats in the Senate trying to sell himself as a moderate as well. You would think with the far left and far right battling for the Prez, it would leave some speaking room for the middle (3rd parties). But I think people are so polarized because the "other" candidate of the two major parties is so far from their own beliefs that everything is focussed much more on Bush and Kerry.

It didn't help that jerks like MoveOn.org and the Swift Boat Vets came out with hardcore negative ads early, getting the jump even on the candidates' negative ads. The whole campaign season has been about extremes, and I don't think what is left of a fair press in the US has any time for anything else.