On February 6, Jill Stein spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to say she is exploring whether to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. That attracted a good amount of publicity. However, many of the stories had factual errors. The Bloomberg story misspelled Ralph Nader’s surname as “Nadar”. National Public Radio said if Stein runs, that would be only the second Green Party presidential run. Here is one of the more accurate stories. The Boston Globe story said she was on the ballot in 2012 in “more than 30 states”, which is true, but a better story would have been more precise, and would have said she was on in 36 states plus the District of Columbia. Here is a better story from The Times of Israel.
None of the news stories mentioned that the Green Party is already on the ballot for 2016 in states containing 55% of the national electorate, and this percentage will increase as the party completes more petition drives during 2015 and 2016.
It was already pretty much a given that Jill was going to run again, she’s been very active the last couple of years. Her announcement even made ABC/Yahoo news, and garnered near a thousand comments. In terms of media recognition, she’s off to a relatively excellent start already, albeit the news media appears to be having some issues with accuracy, as you pointed out. I think some of it might have to do with how the Obama administration has been treating the press; the mainstream media is likely still a little ticked off so they decided to give Jill some attention.
If Burnie Sanders says no to a campaign in 2016, then at least the Greens will have one worth while candidate.
Blomberg speled Nadir’s nane corectly twise. Thay wirr probly trieing too maik uh punn aboot off-the-radar ore nadir.