It's time we stop laying all the blame of the current events regarding the Ron Paul campaign on the main stream media. We are fortunate enough to be living in an age where information is readily available through the click of a button. In spite of the recent SOPA/PIPA bills, we are fortunate to have uncensored, user generated content on the internet so we can learn things that otherwise we couldn't do through the mainstream media. People all over the country and all over the world are able to share their stories, their information and thoughts so we can get information from all angles involved. What I am trying to state is the truthful, unbiased and accurate information on any candidate, whether it be Ron Paul, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama is available to be seen, if one were interested of seeing it.
The people themselves are as much at fault as the media itself. In the case of Ron Paul, we can all admit that the people are incredibly misinformed about Ron Paul's ideas, ideals and plans. It's not the media's fault though, so blaming them for all the bumps in the road thus far is not a completely viable argument. I, myself, never heard of Ron Paul before last year and most likely wouldn't have known much about the congressman if I didn't log onto the internet and start my own research outside of CNN or Fox. Odd to me, was the fact that CNN and Fox were blatantly ignoring Ron Paul and assumed him to be a "crazy" individual that was "unelectable." Well, curiosity took over and moments later I found myself on the internet reading about this Ron Paul guy and trying to find out what he was all about. With today's technology, everything from iPads and mobile phone with 4G internet connections, there really is no excuse for not looking farther into issues unless one simply doesn't care about the election, doesn't care about the country or simply doesn't care about the future given our depressing wars and evergrowing debt. I mean, if I were an American seeing the image below on the news, I would be thinking "Wow, this Ron Paul guy is actually pretty damn electable, look how well he is predicted to do against Obama. Let me find out more about him."
The media was all over Perry and Cain last year and it's nothing personal against Ron Paul. As we have all seen, the media will go after every candidate. Mitt Romney misspoke about him able to "fire" people, and that statement was taken completely out of context and used against him by mainstream media outlets. Rick Perry's anti-gay message was the same. He was demoralized by the mainstream media on that issue. We heard more about his "controversies" rather than his policies and ideas, regardless of whether those ideas were sensible or not. We may, as Ron Paul supporters, be bitter about the media twisting certain issues around, asking inappropriate questions and such. However, that's what the media does. It's a business and such treatments are not bound to any one candidate in particular. Perry was destroyed by the media, Cain was destroyed by the media as well as Huntsman being left to dry with no media coverage. Nevertheless, the reason the media could not take down Ron Paul (even though they'd attempted numerous times) is because the guy has the cleanest background by any candidate ever. He never changes his ideas to please the growd during debates and has been spreading the liberty message for decades.
The media does what the media has been doing ever singe it's inception. They label Ron Paul as the crazy old man, Mitt Romney as the corporate businessman, Gingrich as the unfaithful former speaker of the house and Santorum as the religious nut. The people have everything they need right in front of them, but it's up to them to decide if they care enough about our issues to take initiative and learn.
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