There is one reason Andrew Yang isn’t getting heavy coverage: At this point, he has no plausible path to the Democratic presidential nomination
Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images Now and again, you hear complaints from members of this year’s very large Democratic presidential field — or from their camps or their supporters — that they aren’t getting the media attention they merit.
Axios suggests that Yang’s relatively low media-coverage ranking “shows that the press is in unfamiliar territory in covering a candidate from outside the political world who keeps a low profile.” This last phrase is puzzling: a candidate who “keeps a low profile” is obviously doing less of the things that justify media coverage. But for a candidate “outside the political world,” it’s interesting that Yang’s getting more media coverage than a U.S. Senator and at least two U.S. House members.
There’s one more line in that Axios piece that I suspect is the real source of this and other complaints about “unconventional candidates” not being taken seriously enough:
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