Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...other journalists think of their stories than about what readers or viewers might want or need to know. And because reporters tend not to be the most original folks, they're afraid of getting either too far ahead or too far behind. That's why, if things are going wrong with your campaign, you've got to right it lickety-split. In two days the media horde can undo strategies that took months to create...
...Queen Latifah is asking Vice President Al Gore whether he prefers his women in leather or lace. And what's more, he answers. (Lace.) Bush has tried to push away the microscope, remembering what happened to his father when reporters got it wrong about the President's understanding of a supermarket scanner. So each day starts at the ramparts, and the candidate glares at photographers who try to catch him with his tie undone or drinking a nonalcoholic beer...
...banter, the only people who are not supposed to disparage politicians are their opponents. There seems to be little distinction between underhanded smears and hard, defensible attacks, only a growing consensus that making the basic argument of a campaign - that I am the right choice and my opponent the wrong one - is somehow dirty pool...
...campaign, for instance, we saw the anti-negative negative ad. In New York's Senate race, Democrat Hillary Clinton attacked Republican Rick Lazio for his having attacked her by tying her to Middle East terrorism. In Washington State, Democrat Maria Cantwell released a spot saying, "You know what's wrong in politics today? All the negative ads" - and then aired a hatchet ad saying her adversary "broke his promise to seniors," accompanied by the sound of breaking glass. Others put the attack in the mouths of celebrities or regular people, like the distraught elderly man in an NRA ad warning...
...producers have conducted independent research of charges made by a campaign. That has now dwindled, both due to news organizations being more and more stretched and because the media believes that the backfire effect on the campaigns would be far too devastating if the information provided were wrong...