As Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama debated in Cleveland on a snowy evening in late February, 650 journalists descended on the city to follow every jab and parry, albeit on enormous televisions in two makeshift filing centers.
But early the next morning, as the two candidates set off for engagements across Ohio and Texas, representatives of only two dozen or so news organizations tagged along.
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I guess that stenographers are cheaper than actual journalists, anyway.
Gee,you little obama lovers will just have to forget your free trips and dinners---maybe you can start telling the truth about obama,rezko and wright,since you don't get any more rewards for lying!!
A newspaper without reporters is not a newspaper.
And as the papers go, America will be divided into two classes based upon the information that is available to them:
Those who believe everything the news organs that are owned by large corporations tell them is reality, and those that don't.
Since I voted more than a month ago and the convention doesn't get around to chosing the nominee for another twenty-two weeks, this contest doesn't really concern me anymore. If they all go on vacation it won't be too soon.
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New York Times | JACQUES STEINBERG | March 26, 2008 12:54 AM