Why Don't Romney or Obama Have Anything to Say to the News Industry?

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By: Molly Ball | The Atlantic

Mitt Romney addressed the Newspaper Association of America on Wednesday, a day after Barack Obama spoke to the same group. Both used the Washington venue as a platform for a combination of campaign and policy speech: For Obama, it was a convenient place to deliver his scathing critique of Republicans' budget proposals; for Romney, it was a rebuttal in which he insisted that Obama was distorting the GOP's ideas because he doesn't have any of his own.

Neither man made more than glib and passing reference to his audience -- executives from an industry both crucial to democracy and mired in a long-running business crisis.
































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