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The New York Times (9/4/98) sent Washington reporter Lizette Alvarez to Manchester, New Hampshire, to cover a series of campaign speeches by House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt (D.-Mo.). Early in the article, headlined “Gephardt Trumpets ’98 Agenda of His Party,” Alvarez noted that “the word ‘scandal’ or the name Monica Lewinsky did not drop […]
A common theme in media analysis about terrorism is that the U.S. has been specially targeted because of its support for democracy and other lofty principles. The Chicago Tribune‘s R.C. Longworth, for example, made this observation on August 30: Most Americans see their nation and its ideals as benign and positive, and they assume that […]
