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Reporters Divvy Up the Tough Questions

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By Jessica Rettig, Washington Whispers

One of the hardest things for the young reporters embedded in the presidential campaigns in 2008 was to ask the tough questions without getting on a candidate's bad side. After all, between the catering and travel arrangements, the campaigns took pretty good care of their reporters. ABC's Bret Hovell, an off-camera John McCain embed, says his colleagues had a solution: Alternate who had to ask the hard question of the day. Sometimes that wasn't enough, though, as campaign aides would chew the reporters out for any critical story their network did.

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why isn't the audio tape (covert if necessary) of that "chewing" on the evening news? After all, I'd rather hear the unedited rantings of the people a candidate hires than see the candidate make yet another canned and meaningless "statement". The press is supposed to be putting "off the record" stuff onto the public record. Elsewise, what is the press there for really?

Muser of NM 10:01PM January 02, 2010

And I think the media mogels are starting to get out of bed with our Anointed One.

ted of AZ 2:05PM December 31, 2009

NOT!

s of VA 1:46PM December 31, 2009

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