In Nevada, Running for Senate and From Cameras

Source: NY Times

RENO — There is a game in Nevada called “Where’s Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing.

Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party darling, has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters here, leading to some unusually aggressive behavior by local television stations. In a segment fit for TMZ, one intrepid reporter chased her on foot outside a restaurant this month, repeatedly asking why she had once said that “if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.” She ignored the questioner and tried to outpace him, in a video clip replayed across the state.

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In a state where reporters say they can knock at the Governor’s Mansion and say hello, people are wondering whether Ms. Angle’s “no comments” — except to friendly radio hosts — are indicative of something bigger. The reporters said they suspect that Ms. Angle, who has said that the Environmental Protection Agency should be eliminated and that Social Security should be “transitioned out,” is afraid of running into the same interview buzz saw as Rand Paul’s Senate campaign did in Kentucky.

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Ms. Angle’s campaign strategy — if it is indeed a strategy; a spokesman did not respond to a request for comment — is representative of a pick-and-choose media landscape. Since the primary victory, she has showed up on Fox News and sat down with several conservative radio hosts, including Bill Manders of KOH, the dominant talk station in Reno. “She answers every question I ask her,” Mr. Manders said, although he said he had advised her to give more interviews.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/us/politics/29angle.html

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Sharron Angle's ongoing attempt to avoid any media scrutiny regarding her extremist views exposes the growing danger of parallel propaganda media like Fox News, which essentially sheilds Republican candidates from having to answer any substantive questions on their views and records.

So, folks in Nevada may end up voting for an extremist candidate simply because her views have been suppressed by friendly media, and she has avoided any interviews with more objective news journalists. Worse, with the growing influence of corporations who are freed by Citizens United to spend unlimited amounts of money, the views and records of candidates is growing increasingly opaque.

She had an interview with manders

interesting about her views on rape

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8657291

edit: forgot to add link..... sorry

Or some kind of forum in which candidates would give unedited answers to un-screened questions from reporters.