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Linking newspaper readers to the best political coverage.(Politics and the New Media)
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Nieman Reports
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June 22, 2008
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Who has the best political reporting on the Web? Is it:
* National news organizations, with their broad perspective?
* Local news media, because all politics is local?
* Web-native newcomers, including bloggers, with their independent perspectives?
* International news organizations, with their nonprovincial perspectives?
The reality of the Web, where voters can access political coverage from any news site or blog on the planet, is that no single source can claim to have the best political coverage. For a single political story or event, sure. But for any one news organization to have the last, best word on everything, every time, is a Herculean task for ...