FEED THE BEAST OR BE ITS FEAST

Dean's Dilemma (Howard Kurtz, June 27, 2003, Washington Post)

[N]ow that Dean has boosted himself into top-tier status, news organizations are starting to take a second, and harder, look at some of his fudges and inconsistencies, including his apologies to some of the other Democratic candidates.

As the Baltimore Sun's Paul West observes: "He has not become the darling of the national media corps, which regards him as thin-skinned and prone to complain about tough reporting, sometimes even before an article has appeared in print."

Carl Leubsdorf writes in the Dallas Morning News that some top Democrats "fear a repetition of the electoral disasters" created by George McGovern in 1972 and Walter Mondale in 1984, and that Dean has "gained a reputation for nastiness that could create problems."

One of the smart things that John McCain did was suck up to the press so that they were essentially co-opted into his campaign. Mr. Dean needs to buy the bus. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 27, 2003 12:31 PM