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"If you&amp;#x27;re actually interested in &amp;quot;issues,&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s no secret that the media doesn&amp;#x27;t cover a presidential race very well. (Check out the best book ever written about this here.) But it&amp;#x27;s less well-known how sensitive and thin-skinned the media can be, and what that means when it comes to covering a race. Deep down, members of the media want to be liked. That&amp;#x27;s why, when the Clinton campaign stepped up their whining this month about how the media had been so &amp;quot;unfair&amp;quot; to Hillary Clinton, they started wringing their hands and trying to figure out what they could come up with against Barack Obama. (While ignorning Bill Clinton&amp;#x27;s recent deal-making meetings with shady figures linked to Kazahkstan, and not pressing the Clintons to release their tax returns.) That&amp;#x27;s also why they&amp;#x27;re going with the story that Clinton &amp;quot;won&amp;quot; some amazing victory last night when in fact she didn&amp;#x27;t actually win Texas, and she won Ohio with a smaller margin than she had in the state even just a few weeks ago. (This &amp;quot;Comeback Kid&amp;quot; line also ignores the fact that Hillary Clinton cannot overcome Obama in delegates, but hey, that would end this horse race, and it&amp;#x27;s still in every journalist&amp;#x27;s best career interest to keep this race going.) John McCain has been savvy enough to court the press corps: to let them ride on his bus, to joke with them, and generally to behave as if they&amp;#x27;re all friends. It may not be fair or right that the result for McCain has been mostly positive press (even the attacks on him are affectionate). But it proves that when it comes to the candidates, members of the media want them to like us. Even though they shouldn&amp;#x27;t, considering that it&amp;#x27;s our job to take them to task. What do you think of the way the media covers the candidates? &amp;amp;#8212;Caille"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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