"Find the Toughest McCain Story We've Got and Put It On the Front Page, Just To Show Them That They Can't Get Away With It." |
| Published: October 20, 2008, 10:10 am |
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On that New York Times story about Cindy McCain. In the front-page story headlined, "Behind McCain, Outsider in Capital Wanting Back In," we learn, among other things, that snooty congressional wives didn't want to sit with Mrs. McCain at a luncheon in 1982, shortly after her arrival in Washington. We learn that she worried about not fitting in. We learn that her parents on occasion bought her presents on behalf of John McCain, who was allegedly too busy or too uncaring to do so. In what sense are these revelations, if true, newsworthy? And when you are doing a story about the wife of a candidate, do those big scoops justify the intrusiveness required to discover them? Over the weekend, the McCain campaign put out an email that Times reporter Jodi Kantor sent to a schoolmate of the McCain's adolescent daughter, Bridget. According to the campaign, Kantor found the schoolmate through Facebook and wrote, "I'm a reporter at the New York Times, writing a profile of Cindy [ Full article ] |
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