Romney abandons blame-the-media strategy

Mitt Romney said that he doesn't worry about liberal bias in the mainstream media, yet another sign that the campaign is distancing itself from the blame-the-media strategy it began to court just a few weeks ago.

"I think we have a system of free press. People are able to provide their own perspective based upon their own beliefs. I think there are some people who are more in my camp, there's a lot of people who are more in his camp, and I don't worry about that," Romney said when asked by CBS News's Jan Crawford if he thought the "mainstream media" was "in the tank" for the president. "I don't think anybody in my business thinks they wouldn't like to rewrite the stories, and write the media accounts in a way that's more favorable to them," he said. "But I don't worry about that." Romney's comments came on the same day that his senior adviser Ed Gillespie told Fox & Friends the campaign had a "no whining rule" about media coverage. "We think that big choice will overcome all of this horse race political analysis you see in the media on a day-to-day basis,” Gillespie said. It was not always thus.