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How the Media's Tarring of Hillary Hurt Obama Too

Started by NicholeW., August 29, 2008, 03:26:00 PM

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August 29, 2008, 03:26:00 PM
How the Media's Tarring of Hillary Hurt Obama Too
By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. Posted August 29, 2008.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/96854/

From the primaries to the convention, the media have become experts at inventing a storyline and skewing facts to support it.

Within the fast-forward world of campaign journalism, it's not considered cool to examine the recent past in order to provide context for today's events. (We know it's not cool because nobody does it.) Nonetheless, here's a very brief history lesson that the political press prefers to ignore.


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