J School Professor Forgets Newspapers As Source for Presidential Information
So I wrote a letter to the Editor of USA Today, and it was published today:
Read the newspaper
Mark Van Patten - Bowling Green, Ken.
Don Campbell encourages USA TODAY readers to avoid polls, to watch C-SPAN and to read non-partisan websites to gather information about presidential candidates. But I find it ridiculous that he doesn’t encourage readers to read newspapers and newspaper websites to get their information.
He is, after all, a journalism professor and columnist for the largest newspaper in the USA.
Even though Campbell wrote that the Pew Research Center and Harvard University study concluded the media are writing too much about polls and campaign strategy, I still think newspapers provide some of the best information on presidential candidates.
November 28th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
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