Same Game, Same Playground, Different Players
This in the New York Times this morning. Same points, same sound bites, same year, different publication.
by RegoPark - 6:42 pm
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Monday, October 22, 2007
by RegoPark - 6:42 pm
Hey Rego, the lead paragraphs are the key difference, not quite same-o same-o. That’s where the key real news is. Drudge has been getting “scoops” from Clinton yeah we all know that, knew that about GOP candidates too. The unusual, newsy aspect was how the NYT explained that it wasn’t just that Clinton’s camp gave Drudge one particular fundraising “scoop,” it was in the Clinton camp’s motivation for that “scoop” — to be timed specifically to appear on Drudge to trump Obama, distract from his speech. That’s not same-o same-o observation that Drudge gets specific scoops from presidential candidates, it goes instead to WHY he gets those scoops and how they benefit the camp doing the leaking. And the first few paragraphs are written in a way that sort of — but not totally — disguises the fact, or doesn’t raise the question in most readers’ minds, that there is only one place that could have clued the NYT in on what the Clinton camp’s motivation for leaking that scoop to Drudge had been and that the Clinton camp had been successful in pulling it off. (Clinton’s camp, of course. Unless the lead paragraphs explaining what the Clinton camp had been doing and its motivation for doing it were entirely fabricated by the NYT, which I doubt. It’s like bragging about a conquest — look what we did!)