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...Valley estate on the city's southwestern fringe. The area was settled before basic services - sewerage, hospitals, child care, transport and leisure facilities - were established. The self-proclaimed champion of the urban sprawl was Labor leader Whitlam, federal member for Werriwa (1952-78). He put suburban issues into the mainstream of politics. "I was always interested in why Green Valley didn't have the sort of facilities that other parts of Sydney took for granted," Latham told biographer Craig McGregor. "What is it that causes advantage and disadvantage? Why is it that our family didn't own a house...
Having caught the scent of a juicy story from the MSM (mainstream media) to bite into, the bloggers were waiting to pounce like a pack of hounds behind the butcher shop. On Sept. 7, the day before the CBS broadcast, left-leaning blog talkingpointsmemo.com announced that 60 Minutes was to air "documents that shed light on Bush's guard service or lack thereof." The following afternoon, bloggers at freerepublic.com a conservative website, began anticipating the coverage with comments such as, "CBS should have to register as a Democrat [campaign organization]." Minutes into the broadcast, another Free Republic blogger (known...
...learned from the evisceration of Dukakis that every attack must be answered. In some ways, Kerry's team has adapted to the new world. When rumors of an affair with an intern swirled last February, Kerry followed the cardinal rule: Don't elevate rumors into a story in the mainstream press. He went on Don Imus' radio show to deny them, and they faded away...
...President and a Vice President who supported the Vietnam War but didn't fight in it to stand by while their surrogates questioned Kerry's service. Even if the charges were coming from an independent group of veterans, the Kerry camp thought it could rely on the mainstream media to police the situation and inform voters that they were false. Kerry adviser Bob Shrum, says a Democratic strategist, "kept telling Kerry over and over, 'We don't need to respond. It's only a $170,000 ad buy. Nobody will hear...
WELL, LAST WEEK, THE INSURRECTIONARY PAJAMA people--dubbed "pajamahadeen" by some Web nuts--successfully scaled one more citadel of the mainstream media, CBS News. One of the biggest, baddest media stars, Dan Rather, is now clinging, white-knuckled, to his job. Not bad for a bunch of slackers in their nightclothes...