Meg Whitman makes case on how she's different

San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Marinucci | Feb. 13, 2009 (News Report)

California gubernatorial candidate and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, formally opening what may be the toughest bid of her long career, insisted she is offering a skill set and product that are very different from those of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a parade of other wealthy political novices who have run for the state's highest office. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Feb. 13, 2009

An incomplete story. No voices but hers. Little original research or analysis on what she could bring to the state.

Asked if she would favor cutting benefits such as welfare or health care to illegal immigrants, Whitman said that although border enforcement is important she would not support such cuts, because “whether they’re legal or illegal (immigrants), those benefits go to children … and we have to protect the children.”

This type of phrasing in news stories is lazy, and plain irritating for the reader.

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