Oh my goodness, are you telling me that the party was more behind the decades-long member who had spent her time building alliances and relationships over the guy who joined the party a few months before?

Media including committed superdelegates in primary election delegate counts is not at all new (having a candidate that isn't a sitting President or Vice President gain such a strong commitment before a single primary vote is cast is unusual, especially when they don't have similar runaway support in the electorate.)