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"If We Don't Get a Hold of Ourselves, We Will Wear Out Elizabeth Edwards Long Before Her Cancer Does."
That's the gist of this very good article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose reporter noticed that on a recent trip to Ohio, poor Mrs. Edwards couldn't each lunch because press photographers needed (apparently) another five hundred pictures of The Woman Who Dares to Keep Campaigning With Cancer. It's a solid article, and touches on the idea that the press, by second-guessing the Edwards' decision to not cancel the campaign, is imposing its standards on a couple who have every right to do as they please. The best embodiment of that is this video compilation from Katie Couric's 60 Minutes interview, which I'll run without comment other than to say I found it on post called "Leave Elizabeth Edwards Alone" at AmericaBlog. "Some say...."
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Jonathan, thanks for this post. The you tube piece really drives the point home - sadly, Couric comes off as that bitchy knowitall sort of character from an Andy Griffith episode, cornering her victims outside of church, and then roasting them under the guise of 'simple, fair questions with a hint of sisterly concern'. This is part of a shift in journalism that has happened just in my adult life - wherein the journalist leads the interviewee by prefacing each question with an editorial. FYI to Couric: 'No one gives a shit what YOU would do under those circumstances because I'm sure your kiddies were left with the au pair frequently during your career for reasons as mundane as a face lift.'
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Posted by: Paul Miller on 03/30/07 at 5:03 AM Respond