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Dan Kennedy
2.9
by Dan Kennedy - Mar. 10, 2009

The value of a first-person account by one of the leaders of Off the Bus is dubious, as Michel fails to address the ethical issue raised by citizen journalist Mayhill Fowler's attending an Obama briefing from which the press had been banned and then writing it up for the Huffington Post. Fowler was ill-served by her editors.

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