Romney Wins Florida: Will the Media Ditch Newt?

An interesting question raised by Romney's decisive win tonight: Will this signal to news executives that it's time to scale back campaign coverage? BuzzFeed thinks so, though Politico's Dylan Byers disagrees. (It seems to me that even if they do go to "zone" coverage, it won't matter much, since the reporters will also tell you they've not gotten a lot of access to candidates this season. The candidates have relied on the debates, TV ads, and social media to reach voters--not the MSM).

On the other hand, many reporters I've been observing are not eager for this race to end. Regardless of how they may feel about the candidates personally (which they don't divulge to me anyway), they kinda hate the thought of essentially covering just Mitt all the way until at least late March, when a candidate can finally amass enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination.

Meanwhile, David Corn at Mother Jones, who's been following this race closely, asks whether Newt will be the "Doomsday machine" of the GOP: "Gingrich is a problem for the front-runner and the entire GOP establishment—and that's because he's following the scorched-earth playbook that he long ago developed for the party and that the party has embraced for years."