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On the Road: Obama Caters to Small-Town Media
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 20, 2007 07:43pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | November 20, 2007, 4:08 pm
By Jeff Zeleny
CLARION, Iowa – Last week, Senator Barack Obama appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” sitting in the venerable chair where presidential hopefuls have tested their mettle for 60 years. That, however, is not the only important interview Mr. Obama has conducted in recent days.
After delivering a speech and taking questions Monday from voters here in Clarion, a town of 3,000 people in north-central Iowa, Mr. Obama had one more item on his itinerary: a conversation with The Clarion Wright County Monitor.
As a dozen or so reporters for big-city papers, magazines and television networks packed their bags and headed to the next campaign stop, Mr. Obama lingered behind to chat with Barb Mussman, publisher of the weekly newspaper. For 17 years she has been putting out the paper, but never before has a presidential campaign offered an interview.
“In this job, you wouldn’t think you’d be affected by things like that,” she said. “But I laid awake half the night thinking of my questions.”
For all the discussion over how the media is more apt to cover the horse-race aspect of the campaign – who’s up, who’s down – those were not the questions on Ms. Mussman’s mind. Instead, she asked about education and global warming, and she took notes on her yellow legal pad as a reporter for KHBT Radio in nearby Humboldt asked about Iran. |
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