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Media whips itself into tizzy about New Yorker cover, neglects to read article
July 14, 2008

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Psst! You know that New Yorker
cover that the all-day news networks can’t stop foaming at the mouth
about?

Have you heard about the
article inside? Well, turns out, it makes for some juicy reading,
according to some bloggers who made it through the 15,000-word piece.

Ryan Lizza delves deep into Obama’s background in the Chicago
political machine, and that deserves a lot more attention — both from
the Obama campaign and from the media — than the cover.

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Katia Bachko is on staff at The New Yorker.