Herman Cain got most press coverage of GOP contenders

From Huffington Post:

NEW YORK – He’s no longer running for president, but Herman Cain will finish 2011 having racked up more national media coverage than any other Republican candidate, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Cain’s unorthodox candidacy had everything the media could ask for: wacky, viral ads, foreign policy stumbles ideal for the cable news loop, impromptu singing at the National Press Club, and of course, several allegations of sexual harassment followed by claims of a 13-year affair. Cain’s likely to continue to get airtime in 2012 and may have a future at Fox News.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the media focused more on Cain’s gaffes and damage control than, say, on substantive foreign policy issues, given that 2010′s most-covered candidate was Christine O’Donnell. But Cain even ranked highly looking beyond the political horse race, clocking in third among all newsmakers, behind only Barack Obama and Muammar Gaddafi, according to The Year in News 2011 study . For this year’s report, PEJ analyzed nearly 46,000 stories from 52 traditional news outlets across five platforms: newspapers, magazines, broadcast television, cable news, and talk radio.

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