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"Very Little Real News?" We’re In!

Bill Schneider, a CNN political analyst, confessed just now during a report previewing the Democratic National Convention: There will be more than 10,000 reporters at the...
August 11, 2008

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Bill Schneider, a CNN political analyst, confessed just now during a report previewing the Democratic National Convention:

There will be more than 10,000 reporters at the convention and very little real news.

But plenty of news of the contrived or press release-generated variety! How many reporters is CNN sending? (We’re sending two –hoping, of course, to find “news” among those 10,000 reporters with nothing “real” to report).

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.