Boca Raton activist Jack Furnari sees change in media affecting political campaigns

By at 30 August, 2010, 10:08 am

The dramatic changes in the news media are having an effect on the way politics is practiced. It’s a profound change, said Jack Furnari of Boca Raton, a conservative activist who’s active in the Republican Party, serves as a political consultant for some candidates, and is a sometime-opinion journalist himself in the blogosphere. “This [election] cycle is going to change the way a lot of campaigns are run,” Furnari said. The just-finished primaries made clear what many people have known for a long time, the last few years of cutbacks in editorial staffers at newspapers mean there’s less in-depth political coverage. Furnari, who’s sometimes a source for reporters, said he’s not engaging in the kind of anti-media talking points that often come from people on his end of the political spectrum. Rather,

he said, the political world is affected because there are fewer reporters. Those who remain are doing more. And space in newspapers is less than it once was. “My basic point is because of the cutbacks in all of the major media outlets, especially in the print press, you have a lot of political stories either uncovered or covered lightly [so] that there’s a big hole in a campaign’s ability to disseminate information. “It’s not the same any more. I think it’s the first election cycle really hit home how much the world has changed,” he said. Continue reading Boca Raton activist Jack Furnari sees change in media affecting political campaigns

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