The attempt to erase #PresidentWarren is unprecedented...in 2020. You have to go all the way back to 2019 to find the press doing the same thing with Harris, O'Rourke, and others who lost the invisible Media Primary. *That's* the primary that seems to *really* determine who wins.
PS/ Media has many good means to determine who it should cover. Who's polling well? Who's candidacy is historic? Who's finishing in the Top 5 in early states? Who has presidential credentials? Who'll be on everyone's VP list? Yet no one can tell how media is determining coverage.
PS2/ And I should also give a shout out here to Andrew Yang, who was consistently ignored by media in nationally televised debates in 2019 and 2020, no matter *how* he stood among those on stage in terms of polling and regardless of the historic nature of his candidacy.
PS3/ To be clear, it's not malice, it's a combination of certain campaigns hiring politicos with deep media ties and outlets deciding which narratives they think will hold their audience's attention. A desire to equitably cover as many campaigns as possible never enters into it.
PS4/ Remember, media has *infinitely more airtime* than it knows what to do with. Warren being top four in the first two states and polling second in Nevada and in a statistical tie for third nationally puts her *way way way on the map* for who media should be regularly covering.
PS5/ Consider: only 3% of the delegates have been selected, yet people are saying on this thread—of a media ecosystem that *literally has too much time on its hands*—that it only has room to cover folks who finish in the Top 3 everywhere, which would be only Bernie and Buttigieg.
PS6/ (Of course, even that's not true. Klobuchar was 6th nationally when media rescued her from obscurity; Pete is still 5th/6th nationally; it's unclear if either can finish 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in Nevada. Yet Warren, ahead of them in Nevada and nationally, is only lightly covered.)
