Journal pudge's Journal: Linda Douglass Said What? 6
I am working with CNN with Wolf Blizter on, and I half-hear longtime news reporter Linda Douglass talking about the Republican Convention. She speaks like a reporter, but the words she's using are like they are coming straight out of the Obama campaign's talking points, saying Obama's experience in the U.S. Senate and with foreign policy is "vast." I was incredulous. So I looked up and I see no caption about her, but I rewind and see under her name: "Obama Campaign Advisor."
Apparently she left the journalism business a few months ago.
Someone actually could have assumed it was a reporter giving these lines as part of a news report, and that's pretty disturbing. I am not saying anyone did anything wrong -- maybe CNN should have kept the caption with her position up for the entire time, or something -- but the line between journalism and campaigns is terribly thin sometimes.
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In the Slashdor Fortune, As I Read This: (Score:2)
I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
-- Jack Handley
If McCain wins this race... (Score:2)
... it'll be a complete and utter miracle, for no other reason that everyone but Fox is so completely in the tank for Obama, and has so completely declared war on Sarah Palin.
I've been reading some analysis from some old political hands in DC, and they say it's no so much her ideology that has the press out for blood... it's that McCain completely surprised them with the pick, just completely faked them out.
They don't like being surprised like this, and they're making him pay for it.
Re: (Score:2)
As Newsweek's editor stated on the McLaughlin group last weekend, the news of McCain's pick was greeted with laughter in newsrooms around the country.
Doesn't sound like freaking out to me, sounds like they enjoy finally having something to write about with regards to McCain. The campaign the the oft defeated old guy was probably getting a little thin with him constantly yelling at them to get off his lawn and so for [time.com]
Bad choice? (Score:2)
Had they shred #1 of objectivity, they'd let her open her mouth to speak tonight and reveal herself wise or foolish.
The observation that
news of McCain's pick was greeted with laughter in newsrooms around the country
was an example of a laugh track being cranked up to 11 to cover the sound of a few thousand sphincters slamming shut in unison.
Re: (Score:2)
huh, and I thought it was because they couldn't believe he would make such a bad choice.
As Newsweek's editor stated on the McLaughlin group last weekend, the news of McCain's pick was greeted with laughter in newsrooms around the country.
It's a defense mechanism.
I'm serious.
Re: (Score:2)
"It's a defense mechanism."
You may be right. A liberal friend just told me that progressives are terrified of Palin, that if McCain won, there's be wailing and gnashing of teeth that made all the 2004 "so sorry" hullaballoo pale in comparison.