Super Tuesday: Before You Vote Today...

...take a look at Journalism.org's report on "The Invisible Primary." It'll quickly make you realize that if you've relied on the press or television to shape your perceptions of the candidates, your views have been heavily framed by what the media wants you to see, not what you need to know:

In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information about their records or what they would do if elected, according to a comprehensive new study of the election coverage across the media.

The press also gave some candidates measurably more favorable coverage than others. Democrat Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois, enjoyed by far the most positive treatment of the major candidates during the first five months of the year—followed closely by Fred Thompson, the actor who at the time was only considering running....

[T]hese findings seem to be at sharp variance with what the public says it wants from campaign reporting. A new poll by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press...finds that about eight-in-ten of Americans say they want more coverage of the candidates’ stances on issues, and majorities want more on the record and personal background, and backing of the candidates, more about lesser-known candidates and more about debates.

If you want to change the dynamic, you've got in your hands the best medium possible to seek out the answers you need. Take a few minutes and do some searching today. Before you vote.