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Journos Should Skip RNC, DNC

Conventions merely 'infomercials' for parties, junkets for reporters

By Gabriel Winant,  Newser User

Posted Aug 14, 2008 5:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – The press should quit covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, argues Jack Shafer in Slate. Little more than a four-day “infomercial” for the host party,  each would be better covered by “sportscasters like Bob Costas,” who “know how to...   Read full story »

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