Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHILE the big guns of Senator McCarthy's Wisconsin campaign were firing away at Administration policies, a smaller, but at times almost as nasty skirmish flourished between the Senator's staff and national reporters covering the campaign...
From their point of view, the reporters had reason to complain. The McCarthy organization could muster thousands of volunteers from throughout the nation to canvass Wisconsin voters for the Senator, but it often broke down when confronted with the more sophisticated parts of running a campaign, particularly the delicate job of managing the media...
...Magazine as "an unexcelled master of profanity," he just laughed a little nervously. But, a few hours later, Hersh justified Time's description when he found that someone in McCarthy's headquarters had handed out an important news release in Milwaukee while most of the newmsen were jogging along Wisconsin back roads in the press...
...half right. The press undoubtedly magnified the problems of the McCarthy campaign by emphasizing those closest to them--the errors of the press staff--while ignoring the sometimes inefficient, but extensive student canvassing which brought the Senator's campaign to most Wisconsin voters...
...this is what the candidate's press staff wants. The press is surrounded by the people who have nice things to say about the campaign. Those with complaints -- black leaders in the Milwaukee ghetto, in the case of Wisconsin--have a harder time reaching the reporters. When a crisis such as the Hersh resignation breaks, the campaign staff can fall back on the time-honored tradition of the "backgrounder"--a session in which a campaign aide gives newsmen a story which cannot be attributed except to "a high spokesman" or "sources close to..." "I don't want to make...