As my esteemed colleague here posits, there are legitimate questions surrounding the "religious issues" race being run by Republican candidates Huckabee and Romney. So why aren't those political reporters, um, you know, ASKING those questions?
Think of them as embedded reporters, much like the syncopants deployed with the troops in the Middle East. If the reporter travelling with Romney starts making Romney look bad, then Romney drops out, and the reporter has to go back to the office and start writing lost-dog and school lunch stories again. In the world of reporterdom, there are few higher-status positions than being on the road with the president-to-be. Asking hard questions is a good way to bite the hand that's feeding your career.
Plus, on a much simpler-to-understand level, if you ask the candidate mean questions, then the candidate doesn't invite you to their press conferences any more. And if it's your job to BE at those press conferences, well, how long are you gonna keep your job?
In other words, reporters today have a vested, personal, economic interest in keeping their lips firmly affixed to a candidate's hind quarters. You'll have to turn to non-traditional news sources for honest, hard-hitting questions to be raised.
Sources like the Ram Files.
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