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Beware of losing your head to political spin this election season.
by John Hendel
The media’s feeling some heat these days. Particularly partisan heat. A fireball of controversy has exploded in the last few weeks and centers primarily around Governor Sarah Palin and her appearance at the Republican National Convention.
First, we had the repeated swipes against the media at the Twin Cities convention. Then we had accusations over the media’s sexism and its “unfair” coverage of Gov. Palin. When CNN’s Campbell Brown asked McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds some tough questions on Palin, McCain cancelled an appearance on Larry King. And now, aside from the now-infamous Charles Gibson interview, the McCain camp is playing politics over allowing Palin any press access. So what’s new?
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by John Hendel
All right, people, I’m just going to give it to you straight here. Print journalism is on the way out the door and generally for good reason. Media folks have spent the last ten years freaking out about this. Print is dead! Advertising is down! Jobs slashed! Real dramatic stuff.
That daily newspaper, though, man — that used to be gold. So what in the name of Christ happened? The word aching to escape your lips right now is Internet. The big bad Internet’s knocked out our papers and impoverished the noble American reporter, right?
