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...countless "candidates" forums" and campaign stops, the press picks out events in a narrative. A succession of events, controversies and polls narrow the focus of a crowded race. It may be artificial, but it's manna to the journalist who can't remember if he last talked to Flynnigan of Dikearney. Finnegan was the cagey. Irish pol. Flynn, the liberal "goo-goo". King, the leftist. Incidents become symbolic stories that don't connect," not proven patterns but isolated signals between the lines. Thus Finnegan took his desk home from his School Board office: read. he's a plunderer. Larry DiCara...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Controlling the Fourth Estate | 10/12/1983 | See Source »

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