We here at Election Central have been pretty critical of major news organizations for focusing on petty and irrelevant candidate stories (haircuts, say) over important issues (healthcare, say).

Now it seems the AP is at it again, this time with Mitt Romney and the always attention-grabbing subject of pornography. The Christian Broadcasting Network, founded by Pat Robertson, began passing on allegations by right-wing Christian groups the other day that Romney has profited off hotel porn as a member of Marriott's board of directors. Three days later the story has made its way to the AP, which essentially parrots the CBN piece. Are major news orgs pretending that this issue is worthy of mainstream attention in order to needlessly push sex into their presidential coverage?