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Believe it or not, the article is even worse.

Post-ACORN, 'NYT' Assigns Editor to Monitor 'Opinion Media'

What a load of hooey. Are they going to subscribe to the Enquirer et all too? The underlying theme with this is that the majority of sources he cites are right wing bullshit factories. Via Greg.

Clark Hoyt, in this week's public editor column at NYT, says paper missed or underplayed the ACORN revelations (others are not so sure). In any case, the paper has now assigned an editor to monitor "opinion media" (i.e. Fox News, talk radio, blogs) for news breaks below the surface.

Tabloid Journalism & The Election

As Kathy notes, the tabs have been pretty quiet about all the sordid little scandals in the McCain closet, up until now. Seems the worm (aka polls) has turned. Go read.

h/t Matt

Obama's clever tabloid strategy

By GottaLaff

What?! Obama's being clever? How presumptuous of him.

Bonnie Fuller -- the creator of today's celebrity journalism -- comments on the Obama family being photographed for the cover this week's People magazine and notes "it's apparent that Team Obama has a clear and clever presidential marketing strategy: present Michelle and Barack as the beloved Brangelina of the political world."

Bachelle? Mirack?

"Like every in-demand A-list couple who concedes to allowing a peek behind the curtain, the Obamas insist this will be the 'first and last' up-close and personal look at them as a family. What they don't admit to is that this was a carefully orchestrated, well-thought out brand presentation. And it isn't actually the first highly personal look at the photogenic family. No, it's the culmination of a publicity campaign designed to take advantage of the couple's charisma and Hollywood-worthy good looks. Team Obama is using popular mass-media vehicles such as People, Us Weekly, The View, Access Hollywood and The Colbert Report to familiarize the American public with the candidate and his wife, and to dispel myths about the couple, in a far more aggressive way than has ever been done before in a presidential election."

The Obamas have to be far more aggressive in order to counter all the disgusting Republican screed. More power to them. So, I'm all for it, as long as they don't name their next kid Guava.