CNN’s Brown Suggests Tea Party Coverage is Excessive

The Hollywood Reporter

The media might be overplaying the significance of the tea party movement, CNN anchor Campbell Brown suggested late Tuesday during a political discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference.

Paraphrasing a story from the news Web site, Politico, Brown said: “The media didn’t see the tea party coming, and now are sort of over-compensating by giving these guys way more attention than they deserve.”

Actually, said David Frum, it’s more simple than that: “The media loves people who come to demonstrations in funny costumes,” the right-leaning Time magazine columnist said. More…