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   tjdestry said, about 1 month ago

   Tried to find out what on earth he was talking about and found it where? Fox News! The story begins “Hey, Wayne – Draw this!”

   (No, no – it actually is a year old story about how a White House communications person told a crowd that the campaign worked hard to get their message out. Apparently, a strategy that never occurred to McCain’s people.)

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   4uk4ata said, about 1 month ago

   When exactly did WH people say they “control” the news?

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   cdward said, about 1 month ago

   This is what I got: In a July event, she spoke of the Obama campaign’s efforts to control the message that got out, viz: “a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying.”

   The article then said that Fox started playing her Mao statement after she criticized Fox as being an arm of the Republican Party – a sort of “gotcha” move, I suppose.

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   cdward said, about 1 month ago

   Here is my confusion about the cartoon, however. Is Wayne saying that it’s a non-issue? That there really is no control over the media? I’d tend to believe that, btw, since even George Bush’s efforts to plant a fake reporter in his press conferences were foiled.

   But since conservatives despise the media, and since they also want to control their message so it gets out the way they want, why would they disagree?

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   Whatever one thinks of Anita Dunn, what she said was what most campaign officials hope for. They want the media to report on what the candidate is saying, about his/her positions on issues, etc., instead of reporting on the insider “horse-race” aspects of the campaign — whose ahead in which poll, whose ahead in fundraising, etc.,

   That’s long been a complaint of many people (including me). Because the media covering politics is hearing speeches every day, they tire of reporting on it, and fail to realize that for viewers, this is how they want to learn more about a candidate. When the elite media covering campaigns gets tired of the speeches, they just sit and talk to each other about the horse race aspects and make predictions and offer opinions and they call it news. But the viewer wants to hear the substance, the positions, what the candidates actually said. That’s all Dunn was talking about.