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Election Central links Obama/Farrakhan video, ignores Clinton/Bosnia video...
When a McCain staffer was suspended recently for pointing to a video mashup designed to link Senator Obama to militant factions of racial equality movements, Election Central linked to the video without question.
The video itself provided no material value to the actual facts of the story containing the link, yet it was deemed important enough by Election Central standards for a direct link.
Over the weekend, video has surfaced that directly contradicts (to put it mildly) a key claim by Senator Clinton. This footage, along with the footage of Senator Clinton recounting her recollection of the landing in Bosnia, are DIRECTLY RELATED to timely and pertinent claims the Clinton campaign has made.
This is a major story in ELECTION NEWS, Election Central's stated realm of operation.
Please explain to us why the video in this case not newsworthy?
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Tim Russert also considered the video non-newsworthy. He didn't show the video yesterday. Instead, he mentioned the Washington Post Four Pinocchios rating for Hillary's words.
Maybe the network hoped that the Pinocchio reference would put Hillary's statement in a wink and grin "shame on you" light, rather than airing the video, which would have left no doubt in any viewer's mind that Hillary told a massive lie.
March 24, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
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