Sarah Palin: Media Victim or Campaign Weapon?

Link TV | Sep. 5, 2008 (News Analysis)

The Republican National Convention became the coming out party for Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as John McCain's vice presidential nominee. A storm of worldwide negative media coverage scrutinizing every controversial detail of her life at times felt like a soap opera. Now, as the media are portrayed as the bad guys, many speculate it was all a part of McCain's grand campaign strategy. SOURCES: Al Jazeera, Qatar; Press TV, Iran; Tele 13, Chile; TV5, ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.8
 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Interesting, but not too meaty. It shows a small sample of world TV response, and finds them covering the soap opera drama. It implies the question of whether the White House will become a bad soap opera, or might have some semblance of a respectable center of world leadership. They seem to sense they cannot ignore this candidacy because of their past disbelief that the United States could actually elect G.W.Bush.

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