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Article: Media drive primary campaign.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2000
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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Hordes of journalists have once again descended on tiny New Hampshire, seemingly driving the agenda as never before in the days before the nation's first primary election Tuesday.
A mere decision by any of the presidential hopefuls to simply walk across a street for an early morning doughnut and coffee can beckon a media spectacle.
"The press is really, in a large way, driving the campaign," said John Carroll, managing editor of "Greater Boston," a television program produced by WGBH. "They get to set the agenda. They get to decide what's important and what's not. And they get to decide when it's important, and the candidates ...