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Article: A swing and a miss: the New York Times' controversial John McCain story.(ABOVE THE FOLD)
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- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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What's hardest to stop? An aircraft carrier doing 30 knots? Dick Vitale's superlatives? Ralph Nader's ego?
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What if I added this: A big-time newspaper project that has consumed months of your top investigative talent, tens of thousands of dollars, a grove's worth of Xeroxing and countless hours of planning, dissecting and editorial second-guessing?
Anyone who has ever spent time in a newsroom would say that's an easy call.
On February 21 the New York Times published a story in the upper left hand of its front page. The headline read: "For McCain, Self-Confidence/On Ethics Poses Its Own Risk." For many readers, ...