more cause and effect nonsense

salon has weighed in on the ron paul media anomaly, and pronounced the near-blackout of coverage of his candidacy as reasonable. their reasoning, summarized in their closing sentence, is that "what paul and his supporters did this past weekend is something we've long known they're capable of doing".

huh?

so the editors of salon have long known that ron paul has supporters who prefer to vote for him, so when they do vote for him in quantities that surpass every other candidate in the race save one, it's clearly not news, and it's perfectly reasonable for them and everyone else in the media not to cover them?

this rationale is even more offensive than the lack of coverage itself.