Obama's Inverted Media Strategy Upends Homestretch Hierarchy
It is a new, inverted media pyramid: local TV people suddenly make national news, and national TV people are irrelevant, at least momentarily.
It is a new, inverted media pyramid: local TV people suddenly make national news, and national TV people are irrelevant, at least momentarily.
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Republican John McCain is not going to make his election night remarks in the traditional style _ at a podium standing in front of a ...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
From Milbank's Washington Sketch column: ... Only the polka band, which entertained the crowd before the speeches, seemed unaffected by the pervasi...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 05.25.2011
KANSAS CITY While the traveling press corps was shipped off to a barbecue restaurant here, John McCain charmed his way through an interview with a loc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain has been complaining lately that he gets no love from the press. Media Matters begs to differ -- and they have a new ad to make the case. ...
LA Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week. Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insuffera...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday, John McCain released a series of ads complaining about the media's fawning coverage of Barack Obama. His campaign mocked the huge group of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Marc Ambinder reports that John McCain's one press conference of the week has been abruptly canceled: The one scheduled McCain press conference of th...
New York Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011
Feel free to tell me I'm nuts for asking the question, but doesn't it seem that, more and more, the McCain campaign is turning into the Clinton campai...
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel | Posted 05.25.2011
At the end of another adventuresome week on the trail, full of ups and downs and awkward developments, John McCain talked about campaigning without a ...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to the new John McCain press strategy. Avoid them. McCain today held a 10-minute press conference, complete with podium, microphones for the...
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain told Newsweek that he did not deliver a portion from the prepared text of his speech last Tuesday chiding the media for not giving Hillary...
AP | Libby Quaid | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS -- Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he ...
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011