A large photo illustration on the front page of the Montgomery Advertiser this morning has the photos of folks who are possible or already announced or not-running candidates for Governor next year. Around each photo is a color frame, with green representing an announced candidate, red representing those who've said they will not run, and blue indicating a candidate is undecided. Yet Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks gets the blue treatment, despite the fact that he announced his intention to run in a series of news conferences this last week. And Republican Luther Strange, who is considering a run for something, is framed in green, indicating he's decided to run for Governor. Whoops. A text list of who's-who on an inside page gets all of the running-not-running right. Maybe the Advertiser is just trying to show politics is colorblind? Or is it a case of the impact of media layoffs showing up on page one?
[NOTE: My post corrected on Monday. The Advertiser did include Roy Moore as "undecided", despite my original comment that he had been left out.]
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