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Article: U.S. POLITICIANS COULD BORROW FROM BRITISH CAMPAIGNS.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 7, 1997
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Byline: David Broder
WASHINGTON -- A reporter returning home from London to the miseries of the American political scene might wish for a little reverse lend-lease program from our British cousins.
The campaign that just finished there was roundly condemned for being ''Americanized'' and thereby cheapened. The targets of denunciation included such familiar elements of our presidential contests as slickly packaged biographical videos, harshly negative attacks and a swarm of ''spin doctors'' doing their best to control the tone of campaign coverage.
In keeping with the old dictum that no good deed goes unpunished and therefore no bad deed should ...