Thursday, January 31, 2008

Today's Word—Campaign '08

Boys Off the Bus:

“In recent years, the notion of the campaign bus has come under some reconsideration by critics of the press, who think it fosters a pack mentality. I think they may have a point. Reporters spend a lot of time forming cliques on campaign buses (it’s probably a natural reaction to the close habitat), and meanwhile the candidates have become more guarded and have stopped trying to get to know the reporters anyway.”
Matt Bai, blogging for the New York Times, 2008 (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/boys-off-the-bus/) (Thanks to alert WORDster Raelle Greer)

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