Reply #46: One P.S. about the media

[Tom Rinaldo]

I stated above that Clark got three positive weeks of Press in early January. All things considered he did, in the PRINT media. I remember one positive article about Clark surging that was published in USA Today specifically. However the same can NOT be said for the electronic media, which is under tighter corporate control. They never let up on Clark. Pundits kept dismissing his chances every chance they got. Judy Woodruff on Inside Politics refused to even mention Clark's name day after day after day. Wilder and wilder scenarios kept getting spun about how Gephardt was the man the Republicans really feared. They talked like Lieberman had just as much of a chance to rise from NH as Clark did. There continued to be the non stop focus on Clark campaign "mistakes" that was noted above by another poster, and of course there was the blatant ambush that FOX news sprung on Clark at the last New Hampshire debate.