Poor CBS news correspondent Dean Reynolds feels that he is not getting enough attention from the Obama campaign: http://www.cbsnews.com/...
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But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is broadcast. I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn't be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it's true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night.
And the threat? If the Obama campaign doesn't start sucking up to CBS news correspondent Dean Reynolds:
But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.
The article (http://www.cbsnews.com/...) is your basic political opinion article devoid of facts but accompanied with severe bias.
Poor CBS news correspondent Dean Reynolds feels that he is not getting enough attention from the Obama campaign. He feels that since CBS is so big, Obama must suck up to them (spelling errors are from the article):
But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is broadcast. I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn't be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it's true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night.
Apparently the Obama campaign is in complete disarray, and John McCain is the one that is free and open with the press, not Obama:
When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who've been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.
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It is true that McCain enjoys taking questions from the audience in town hall-style settings. That doesn't mean he is the master of that kind of forum, it just means he's good at it. He likes to converse with voters. Obama does it well too, but seldom achieves that intangible bond with the people that all politicians crave -- or fake.
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Obama's campaign schedule is fuller, more hectic and seemingly improvisational. The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about. Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it's all for security reasons.
Apparently the Obama campaign is 'terrified' by the press according to CBS:
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
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Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he's just said. It's made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.
And the threat? If the Obama campaign doesn't start sucking up to CBS news correspondent Dean Reynolds:
But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.
Keep in mind, CBS is moderating the next debate. Bob Schieffer. Remember him? The one that set up Wesley Clark for the POW question? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
So when is it exactly that Obama's lack of sucking up to CBS news correspondent Dean Reynolds is going to 'come around' and hurt him? Mr. Reynolds?