http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/looking_for_lessons_in_the_swi.php
“As much as we have an obligation to be objective, we still need to point out when something is bullshit,” says (columbus Dispatch editor) Hallett. “We have that obligation to the readers, but then we also get painted as favoring one side or another.”
....on another note, actual news and interesting political coverage in the Metro section of the Dispatch. Will the Metro section finally have more pages of "news" than the obits???? One can dream!
If Newt Gingrich emerges from the South Carolina Republican primary to improbably become president, he will owe a good measure of his success to the creative denizens of a 185-year-old former inn near Powell.
In the home originally built along the stagecoach route — now Rt. 23 — the public image of the former House speaker from Georgia is being shaped, packaged and shipped to media outlets in one primary election state after another....
The rapid success of the Strategy Group for Media is personified by its flamboyant and controversial founder, Rex Elsass, a 49-year-old born-again Christian who owns a Bentley and gets around town in a chauffer-driven Cadillac Escalade and across the nation in the company jet.
Once a ringleader of a GOP dirty-tricks group labeled the “nasty boys” more than 20 years ago, Elsass has morphed into arguably the premier political adman in the country.
“You just don’t know who’s going to do well in life,” marveled Mary Anne Sharkey, now a political consultant who coined the “nasty boys” moniker while Columbus bureau chief for The Plain Dealer. “It’s kind of like your high-school prankster striking it rich.”




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