TimesWatch Tracker for September 8 2008

TimesWatch Tracker for September 8 2008

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Monday, September 8, 2008

The "Fraudulent...Fiction" of the McCain-Palin Ticket
Conservatives are happy, and columnist Frank Rich is spitting mad.

The NYT Tackles US Weekly's "Scandalous" Cover Story on Sarah Palin
A focus on liberal bias: "The celebrity magazine, which usually focuses more on Britney and baby bumps than elections, drew criticism from readers for the cover. A record number of commenters on the Us magazine Web site -- more than 6,600, at last count -- weighed in, most focusing on the magazine's perceived bias."

Times Media Columnist Saw Journalistic Contempt for Palin at RNC
Mark Leibovich dismisses Republican arguments about liberal media bias as a campaign tactic, while media columnist David Carr takes them to heart.

No More Mr. Nice McCain: Advisor a Rove Acolyte Spreading "False," "Fierce Attacks"
"[Steve Schmidt's] stamp was reflected in the sharp tone of the scathing prime-time speeches, all of which Mr. Schmidt reviewed and approved, and some of which were criticized as stretching the truth."

Sticking Up for Harry Reid Against Sarah Palin
Reporter Carl Hulse: "Now Harry Reid is hardly thin-skinned and almost anything else Ms. Palin could have said about him might not have drawn much of a reaction. But to the former boxer from tiny Searchlight, Nev., that insinuation from Governor Palin amounts to fighting words. He sees himself as more than capable of standing up to Mr. McCain..."

GOP Convention Reminded Reporter of "Belligerent" Buchanan Speech of '92"The Republican National Convention this week in Minneapolis-St. Paul hardly measures up to the belligerence of Patrick J. Buchanan's 1992 call for a 'cultural war,' but some of the same refrains are playing in the background."

Egan on Sarah Palin, "Alarming" Alaskan Outsider
Liberal reporter turned nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan argues that the Alaskan Palin may be too strange for mainstream America -- a week after attacking Cokie Roberts for calling Hawaii a "foreign, exotic place" for Barack Obama to grow up in.

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