Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bradley didn't have any cold-eyed operatives around him who could tell him he was wrong about Gore. No one in his small circle of longtime advisers--communications director Anita Dunn, campaign chairman Doug Berman, press secretary Eric Hauser--had ever run a presidential campaign, and they all saw Gore just the way Bradley did. In meetings they referred to him as a "joke." When Gore poached some of Bradley's best lines, talking about wanting "a different kind of campaign" that would "elevate our democracy," they thought everyone would realize that Gore was robbing them blind. Nor were...
Gore's policy team found fertile ground for attack even before Bradley delivered his health-care speech. The Bradley campaign had given the Associated Press a preview, and based on that Gore was able to denounce the plan as one that was too costly, did nothing to protect Medicare for the elderly and--the fatal blow--replaced Medicaid coverage for the poor with an inadequate substitute. The plan, says a Gore adviser, let the Vice President move "from the fantasy Bradley to the real Bradley." It also demonstrated a crucial difference between the camps. Bradley advisers told TIME they...
...pictures of McCain on his Straight Talk Express jawing with reporters flooded the airwaves, Bradley looked desolate, riding at one point on a nearly empty bus with a few aides, while a dwindling press corps was sequestered in its own bus behind him. He could be grumpy. Sure, reporters can be superficial and pesky with their ridiculous hypotheticals, and it's hard to scrunch your six-foot-five frame into a coach seat knowing your opponent is stretched out on a soft mattress on Air Force Two, but who said campaigning was a rose garden? One night when the oven...
Today one preferred technique of hype artists is ticker spamming. A number of legitimate services like Business Wire and the PR Newswire accept press releases for a fee and channel them onto the Net, automatically sorting them onto stock bulletin boards. This gives spammers a chance to float releases, which just might mention well-known companies in the text alongside the dogs they're hyping. "You go on Yahoo, [ask for] a news story on Microsoft, and you could end up with some manufactured handout touting shares that have no prospects whatsoever," warns Kevin Lichtman, creator of the Stock Detective...
...plan unleashed a fire storm: six lawsuits; separate investigations by the FTC and the states of New York and Michigan; and a mess of bad press. But it wasn't until the company's stock plunged and two key business partners--Altavista and Kozmo--broke ranks that DoubleClick finally backed down. "I made a mistake," said CEO Kevin O'Connor, whose $1.7 billion purchase last fall of tracking data from Abacus Direct alerted privacy watchdogs that something was afoot...