hampshire, and suddenly newt wimps out and put it all on the back of the new york times. hiding behind the newspaper? absolutely. he clearly doesn t want to be out front, at least in that first debate on the attack. and i don t the times can defend itself. i don t think it s fair for romney to say the times news story, factual, was putting free press on trial. also we had one of our local anchors, josh mcle vain, asking a question followed by stephanopoul stephanopoulos. this had to do, as you ll see, this had to do with recycling some of the harsher words that the candidates have used against each other. take a look. let s go to you, speaker gingrich. recently dr. paul referred to you as a chicken hawk because you didn t serve, given what you just heard governor perry say about understanding the military and dr. paul s dr. paul makes a lot of comments. it s part of his style. you ve got a new ad in south carolina taking direct aim at
rick santorum s political career will be ending soon. he will go to the republican convention next year not as a candidate but as a fox news contributor again. santorum has traveled all of iowa, and he s still gaining no traction. there s a reason for that. then of course, santorum finished in a virtual tie in the iowa caucuses. how could news outlets make this mistake again and fail to scrutinize santorum s record in the process? mitt romney faces skeptical questioning despite winning iowa because his margin was a measly eight votes. what does did say about your candidacy that you actually won fewer votes than but in 2008, and you fought rick santorum to a draw? perhaps the press is just trying to keep this race alive? plus, we ll talk to the political director of the dominant tv station, wmur, about covering the nation s first primary as a local story. i m howard kurtz and this is the new hampshire edition of reliable sources. the media narrative here in new