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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

George Will: Wife’s work on Rick Perry’s campaign doesn’t pose problem (Poynter)

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Nov. 14, 2011  

Asked about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s election chances on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, syndicated columnist George Will disclosed that his wife has joined the campaign, then proceeded to say that candidates can recover from gaffes like the ones that have plagued Perry. Will’s wife Mari Maseng, who’s worked in politics for 30 years, is advising the Perry campaign on messaging and debate preparation. Will said on the show that some staffers for Mitt Romney had tried to make an issue about it. Politico’s Dylan Byers notes that Will has used his column to criticize Romney, including an Oct. 28 column headlined, “The pretzel candidate.”

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Newspaper editor defends Cain interview (Editor & Publisher)

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(CNN) – The editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel criticized efforts by Herman Cain's campaign to discredit the newspaper's interview with the presidential candidate when he stumbled over questions on Libya and collective bargaining.

"Trying to spin it and say it was edited or handled some other way is just not accurate," Marty Kaiser said Tuesday on CNN's "American Morning."

After video of the interview went viral Monday, Cain Communications Director J.D. Gordon said the video was "out of context in some measure," adding that the former pizza executive endured 45 minutes of questions from the paper's editorial board.

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Bachmann Camp Accuses CBS of Bias After Email Suggests Candidate Would Get Fewer Questions (TVNewser)

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By Alex Weprin
November 13, 2011

The Michele Bachmann campaign is furious at CBS News this morning, following the foreign policy debate held last night. The reason? The campaign volunteered Bachmann to appear on the post-debate webcast, and (just announced) CBS News political director John Dickerson–apparently unaware a Bachmann staffer was on the email chain–responded in a way that suggested that Bachmann would be getting fewer questions than other candidates, and that they should hold out for a better candidate on the webcast.

“Okay let’s keep it loose though since she’s not going to get many questions and she’s nearly off the charts in the hopes that we can get someone else,” Dickerson wrote.

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Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series (New York Times)

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By JEREMY W. PETERS
November 13, 2011

It has been one of Newsweek’s signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984.

Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year to travel with the presidential candidates and document their every internal triumph and despair — all under the condition that none of it was to be printed until after the election.

Then two days after Election Day, the sum of their reporters’ work would appear in the magazine. But the ambitious undertaking, known inside the magazine simply as “the project,” is no more. Newsweek, bleeding red ink and searching for a fresh identity under new ownership, has decided the project would not go forward this election season.

Explaining the decision to end the series, Edward Felsenthal, executive editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, its online partner, cited the quickening speed of the news cycle. In a news environment when scoops are often measured in milliseconds between Twitter posts, fewer news organizations are comfortable waiting to publish the kinds of attention-grabbing anecdotes that they would have once saved for longer articles.


“Sitting on election news felt to us out of place in an era where so much information comes out so fast,” he said. The pace seems measurably faster than even four years ago when many of the most titillating anecdotes about the 2008 campaign were reported in “Game Change” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, a book that did not hit store shelves until January 2010.

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