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An 8 page analytic essay that examines the media's extensive coverage of the nation's Presidential Primaries and the direct effect this coverage has on campaign strategy and voter decision. Included is a discussion of different approaches used by print media that focuses on articles appearing in the New York Times and Time Magazine. Also included is a comparison between the media coverage of the 1996 Presidential Primaries and those of the year 2000. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Americas voters, and furthermore, added another 58 percent, Americas president "should be held only to the same personal standards" as those set for the general public (Borger & Kulman 35).
Should these statements appear in print among todays blitz of presidential primary coverage 2000, brows would no doubt immediately arch and skepticism would soon become the word of the
day regardless of the reputation and integrity of the publication. Given this nations recent penchant for the public ousting of immorality from the hallowed halls of its White House,
surely these unspeakable words would never make it past the presses. Past the presses they went, however, only four short years ago. Past the presses and straight into
the print of a U.S. News & World Report article centered around the 1996 Presidential Primaries, an article about none other than the oustee himself, Bill Clinton. The media can
be a maiden of many faces, however, and can turn the tide on a whim. Only two years after defending his character in the article mentioned above, the same
news journal printed a story that labeled the Clinton administration a sarcastic reign of "Clintonism" and stated that "the only principle unifying his presidency is the absence of principle" (Brownstein
22). Four years later, as we stand on the verge of electing the candidate who will lead America into the 21st century, Clinton has been left in the dust
of the last century, where he spent enough time in the headlines to last most Americans a lifetime. The press is a fickle suitor that follows only the spotlight,
and now, during the Presidential Primaries for the year 2000, that spotlight is at its brightest and burns in more ways than one. II. A Free For All Every
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