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Saturday, November 1, 2008

Obama Kicks 3 Conservative Papers Off the Plane

Ok, so Obama says they had to cut seats from some reporters, like the Washington Times, which just endorsed McCain last week, as well as the New York Post and Dallas Morning News. All of these are conservative papers. From ABC News:

The campaign says that a limited number of seats forced it to make the tough decision of which journalists would be permitted to follow the Democratic presidential candidate in the last four days of the campaign, but the papers are calling foul, claiming they were targeted for their editorial-page positions and kicked off while nonpolitical publications like Glamour and Jet magazines remained on board.

Eliminated from the plane's traveling press were the Washington Times, the New York Post and the Dallas Morning News.

"It feels like the journalistic equivalent of redistributing the wealth," said John Solomon, executive editor of the Washington Times.


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