Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...mike into the audience or turning on a camera outside the studio and simply commenting on people coming in and out of the Hollywood Ranch Market across the street. In one recurring bit, he would pick up a copy of the New York Daily News, don a cornball press hat and read angry letters to the editor, with all the vehemence the unseen correspondents would have wanted. He loved concocting wild physical bits, which got their fizz from the sight of this urbane, bespectacled, Brooks Brothers gentleman jammed into a pair of tights on a trapeze or dunked...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn complained that television was killing the old back-room ways. Viewers thought Rayburn a lout when they saw him stay seated when Mom interviewed him. Editorial writers and voters criticized Johnson for talking to this woman before he spoke to the more "serious" men in the press corps...
...Bush did not answer a question on a juror questionnaire about whether he had been involved in a previous criminal case. The Bush campaign says the form was filled out by an aide, who also did not answer several other questions. And there were suggestions in some press reports that when Bush got a new driver's license, with the number 00000005, after he became governor in 1995, his intent might have been to hide the trail to his DUI conviction. But Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett insisted that low-digit VIP license numbers are a tradition among Texas elected officials...
...watchdog Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, says this year's attacks have been, comparatively, a model of accuracy. "There have been some small inaccuracies on each side, and some mid-level distortions," she says, "but the press has been fairly vigilant about going after them, and then the campaign gets it changed...
...Thursday, it sparked a media frenzy. "We're a small operation, and every media outlet in the country was calling here," says WPXT-TV news director Kevin Kelly. As the Bush campaign shifted into damage-control overdrive - contacting Bridges and persuading him to talk to the press - things were only getting worse. Wayne Slater, a Dallas Morning News reporter traveling with the Bush campaign, said that two years ago, he had asked Bush if he had been arrested during the relevant time period and that Bush had denied...