Politics

Lobby, Lobby, Lobby, I'm a Liberal

by Diane Farsetta — September 7, 2004 - 11:00pm

Further illustrating "the revolving door that exists between those who run campaigns and those who lobby," the Kerry campaign's recent hires -- Joel Johnson, Joe Lockhart, Howard Wolfson and Michael Whouley -- are all lobbyists, as well as Democratic strategists.

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Washington Post, September 8, 2004

Dem Advisors Flip Flop Hats

by John Stauber — September 7, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Just last week, Stanley Greenberg was
the polling mastermind guiding the way three liberal groups
spent tens of millions of dollars attacking President Bush
and registering voters. But he quit that position to be an
unpaid adviser to the Kerry campaign as it presses to
sharpen its message in the final 56 days before the
election. Mr.

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New York Times, September 8, 2004

The Pampered Press

by Laura Miller — September 5, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Reporters who cover political conventions are accustomed to tiny workspaces, often shoddy technical setups, and few, if any, luxuries," PR Week writes. "Last week, New York City and the GOP - with the help of GCI Group- went to great lengths to break the mold. Journalists covering the Republican National Convention ...

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PR Week (sub. req'd.), September 6, 2004

Spreading Freedom at the RNC

by Laura Miller — September 2, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Over the first three nights, the Republican Convention speakers carefully crafted a tri-partite frame for George W. Bush's Thursday acceptance speech: Night 1: The Global War on Terror defines our lives and our generation. Night 2: With enough discipline, all Americans can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become prosperous. Those girly men have only themselves to blame.

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Alternet, September 3, 2004

Oily (Not Girly) Men

by Diane Farsetta — September 2, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to reorganize almost every aspect of state government was influenced significantly by oil and gas giant ChevronTexaco," including "streamlining the permit process for the construction of new oil refineries" and "reorganizing the regulatory process for ... energy facilities," reports Associated Press.

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Associated Press, September 3, 2004

They Fought the Law and the Law Won

by Sheldon Rampton — September 2, 2004 - 11:00pm

"As Republicans inside Madison Square Garden praised the NYPD for keeping order," writes Michelle Goldberg, "grim stories of preemptive, arbitrary arrests, filthy jail conditions and long detentions without access to attorneys circulated among protesters, lawyers and quite a few ordinary New Yorkers who were arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...

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Salon.com, September 3, 2004

The Right Angle

by Sheldon Rampton — September 2, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Stephan Savoia glowed about the picture he would take at the end of the Republican National Convention," writes Karen Brown Dunlap. "He planned it hours before the President's speech by suspending a camera high in Madison Square Garden for the right angle. He imagined the beauty of the moment, but he also growled in anger. 'The picture will be exactly what the White House wanted,' he said. It would show President George W.

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Poynter Online, September 3, 2004

Back to the Future

by Sheldon Rampton — September 1, 2004 - 11:00pm

"For $2.4 trillion, guess what word other than 'a,' 'and,' and 'the' - occurs most frequently in the acceptance speech George W. Bush delivered tonight," writes William Saletan. "The word is 'will.' It appears 76 times. This was a speech all about what Bush will do, and what will happen, if he becomes president. Except he already is president. He already ran this campaign. He promised great things. They haven't happened. So, he's trying to go back in time. He wants you to see in him the potential you saw four years ago.

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Slate, September 2, 2004

Winning the War on Terror?

by Sheldon Rampton — September 1, 2004 - 11:00pm

"As speakers at the GOP convention trumpet Bush administration successes in the war on terrorism, an NBC News analysis of Islamic terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, shows that attacks are on the rise worldwide - dramatically," report Robert Rivas and Robert Windrem
NBC News. "Of the roughly 2,929 terrorism-related deaths around the world since the attacks on New York and Washington, the NBC News analysis shows 58 percent of them - 1,709 - have occurred this year."

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MSNBC, September 2, 2004

Moore Bad News

by Sheldon Rampton — September 1, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Security guards at the Republican National Convention overreacted when USA Today guest columnist Michael Moore entered Madison Square Garden Monday night and were responsible for a disruption that made it difficult for several members of the press, including Moore, to cover the proceedings, said the U.S. House Daily Press Gallery, which oversees press credentials for the convention. The gallery conducted a review of the Monday incident, which it calls the worst case of police media control since the 1968 Chicago convention."

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Editor and Publisher, September 2, 2004
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