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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Quote approval

1. July 19, 2012 06:18 AM

   A dart to the campaign press corps

   ...for acquiescing to that whole "quote approval" thing

   By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx

   It’s a diffuse target, but the campaign press corps writ large earns a dart this week for acquiescing to the scenario that Jeremy Peters describes in his much-discussed New York Times article, headlined "Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back": On the off chance you haven't seen it yet, here's Peters's lead: The quotations come back redacted,...

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2. July 27, 2012 03:10 PM

   Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record

   For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns' message control

   By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx

   Jay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead and give her a laurel for her takedown of a Mitt Romney campaign ad that ripped President Obama’s now-infamous “build that” line out of context. Damon’s short, to-the-point factcheck item didn’t mince any words, calling the ad “a classic example...

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