Reply #19: somewhat agree

[DangerDave921]

I agree all "serious" candidates should get fair coverage. But the problem is how do you define who is a "serious" contender. If someone is getting 1% in polling, does that person warrant the same press coverage as the guy who polls 30%? What about the true fringe candidate who gets 10 people to show up at a speech? Should that person get the same coverage as the guy who gets 3,000 to attend?

By the results of the primaries thus far, Kucinich is not a serious candidate. He just isn't. So to try to force a news outlet to devote as much manpower to him as to the leading candidates is kind of silly.

And you say there should be equal exposure by law. How could a law actually work in this regard? Would a news station be fined if it showed 2 minutes on Hillary but only 30 seconds on Edwards? Who would monitor such a thing?