Press Row

August 23, 2007 - 10:12am

Questions We’d Like to Ask

Kudos to the Jersey Journal for its report confirming the tragic circumstances surrounding NJ Senate Majority Leader Bernie Kenny’s (D-33) recent accident.

Still, many unanswered questions remain for the Journal and other news outlets:

When conflicting accounts first began to emerge, why didn’t anyone ask what Kenny was wearing the morning of the accident? Was he outfitted in running attire or clothed in business casual? Surely emergency response personnel on the scene or hospital attendees must have taken noticed?

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August 22, 2007 - 7:43am

'Tis the Season to Poll

It’s a bit of a stretch for the Star Ledger to portray Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) as having "surprisingly weak support from women" based on the new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.

The poll actually shows

Clinton leading by a 9 percent margin among women in a head-to-head horse race against former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Not bad 15 months before the general election..."a lifetime in politics."

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August 20, 2007 - 2:33pm

Dirty Laundry: Airing out political reporting in NJ

With apologies to Don Henley, I don’t make my living off the evening news.

I really do want to know what’s going on.

The folks at PoliticsNJ.com feel the same way. So they asked me to blog about political reporting, with an emphasis on potential biases by the media, actual conflicts, factual errors, and shortcomings in news stories.

‘Cause sometimes when it’s said and done the press hasn’t told us a thing.

Okay, enough with the ‘80’s rock lyrics.

For a couple of decades, I was in the State House press food chain. I fed ‘em and occasionally got chewed on by them. I’ve also gagged on plenty of smoke in those back rooms where the “people’s business” really gets done.

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