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The MediaApril 2008 Blurring the lines by James Bowman On the continuing feud between Senators Obama and Clinton. Back in January, you may remember, I was holding my breath to see if Rudy Giuliani’s attempt to make an attack on the news media a winning strategy in the Florida primary would work (see “A Kick in the Pants” in The New Criterion of February, 2008)—or, failing that, if it would have any effect at all. Then I doubted that any good could come of such a move, but I had allowed myself to hope and was therefore disappointed when Mr. Giuliani’s lack of “momentum,” that most prized journalistic commodity of all successful primary candidates, proved far more momentous than his slap at the media. The media had, apart from the isolated article I saw, declined even to notice—let alone respond to—it, and Mr. Giuliani’s effort to gain electoral lift by picking a fight with what opinion polls show is one of the most disliked institutions in America died a-borning. Yet maybe I w ... You need to login to view the full text of this article. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 26 April 2008, on page 58 Copyright © 2008 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/blurring-the-lines-3816
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