For the Candidates, Not Just Any Brand Of Soapbox Will Do

FOR THE CANDIDATES, NOT JUST ANY BRAND OF SOAPBOX WILL DO
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Howard Kurtz]
Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Milt Romney, on Sunday mornings, appear almost exclusively on Fox News Sunday. The leading Democratic presidential candidates present a mirror image, with Hillary Clinton and John Edwards granting no interviews to Fox since January, and Edwards now bashing Rupert Murdoch's network as unfair to his party. To a striking degree, the candidates are picking their spots, carefully choosing which media operations they will court and which they will ignore. That leaves some of them preaching to the political choir, but also shields them from especially aggressive questioning. The new media order has been spawned by a 500-channel universe and a polarized climate in which news organizations are increasingly viewed, fairly or unfairly, as leaning to one side or the other. And with a cornucopia of choices, politicians tend to gravitate toward what they see as friendly arenas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/12/AR200708...
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