Posted: 10/30/2004 5:28:00 PM EDT
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Releasing daily transcripts of conference calls in which they show how Kerry is outperforming Bush... problem is when you read what they say, and if you know much about national campaigning and the history of the 2000 and 2004 race, you would know they are making all the wrong observations... but they are painting a picture they want people to believe. Note, you don;t see Karl Rove and Karen Hughes talking about the internal numbers and releasing transcripts. Now, what really gets interesting... go to the very end of the article and ask yourself why it says it was paid for by Kerry/Edwards... is this news, or essentially an ad buy parading as news? news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20041031/pl_usnw/transcript_of_greenberg__devine__donilon__lockhart_call__1_2_113_xml |
Maybe, or maybe they will leap at a Lockhart quote because they are trying to puff up their stories and a quote from the campaign PR guy from a supposedly "insider" briefing is tasty stuff indead. And also, most journalists are easy. I make my living as a communications officer for a Governor between elections, all I deal with day in and out are reporters. |
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