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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

James Dasher wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:
> 
> >> Add to that, his wife
> >> Pauline Cameron
> >> works for or has worked for the Bush campaign. And even all this isn't
> >> enough for Fox News to sideline him or fire him.
> >
> > When did working for a campaign become grounds for firing?
> >
> > Paul Begala currently works for the Kerry campaign AND is employeed by
> > CNN.
> > James Carville currently works for the Kerry campaign AND is employeed
> > by
> > CNN.

And Paul Begala is the co-host of Crossfire with Carville.  Where according
to the CNN site "Begala and co-host James Carville provide insight and
commentary "from the left," as they square off against conservatives Robert
Novak and Tucker Carlson."

They are presented as being biased and therefore I have no problem with it.

> 
> I think the real sin is that Carl Cameron's WIFE may have worked for or
> might currently work for a political campaign.
> 
> Since James Carville's wife doesn't work for the Kerry campaign, I
> think that means he's not biased.

Actually James Carville's wife, Mary Matalin, worked for the Bush campaign
and served as an assistant to Bush and advisor to Cheney.

> 
> Feh.
> 
> Anyways, I know it won't go over well here, but there are two things
> worth noting about news media:
> 
> 1) This sounds like a pool report gone bad.  Pool reports have gone out
> as news stories before people - editors, etc. - catch them.  And the
> reporter can sometimes look bad when things the reporter might say to a
> colleague suddenly get seen by hundreds (or thousands, or more) people.

Actually he claims it was a joke that somehow got out.

> 
> 2) Reporters married to politicians and political activists?  Say it
> ain't so!  Next time you read an AP story or a Reuters story, Google
> the byline and try to find out what the spouse does.  You can't always
> find the information, but more times than not, you'll find that the
> spouse is politically active.  Sort of makes you pause when you read
> those "unbiased" news reports.
> 
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