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Thursday, Jan 29, 2004
trained bares
“About all we interview any more are professional talkers,” says Bob Schieffer, who tries to squeeze informational tidbits from those talkers every Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. The professional part, of course, stems from who his guests are, mainly public officials. But it also flows from the teachings of media trainers, a branch of public relations that originated at J. Walter Thompson in the mid-1970s. Media training was largely a dual response to the tough questioning of Mike Wallace and others on 60 Minutes and the needs of the new business-media outlets that called for a constant stream of corporate executives to chat on the air. Soon other p.r. firms established media training practices, sensing a lucrative sideline in coaching people to handle tough questions."
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2004
burning sensation
heres the (acknowledged) problem with wonkette. i dont ever want to think about james carville and histrollwife having sex.nor
do i ever again want to examine the creases in john kerrys forehead for sign of life on mars.
notes from the undergrind
i should check in with abcs The Note more often. today they have a couple of memos written a few months back by outgoing kerry campaign staff to their replacements.
8. Keep up the fight for full engagement. Jordan wasn't wrong about taking on Dean. The more you throw at him the more something might stick. The research folks camped out in Burlington for weeks, and they have hits that are even better than that NRA questionnaire. Howard Dean has never had an unexpressed thought. This should work against him but it seems to be overshadowed by the fact that our campaign has never had an original thought.
swing, batter
despite what one would assume to be their mutual appreciation for a good piece of wood, i did not expect to be linking the words "baseball" and "g@y p0rn" in the same sentence when i woke up this morning.