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Boehlert: Hillary Clinton speaks at convention. The press concocts a story

Suburban Guerrilla found this 8/26/2008 on mediamatters.org

Within the fast-forward world of campaign journalism, it's not considered cool to examine the recent past in order to provide context for today's events. (We know it's not cool because nobody does it. ) Nonetheless, here's a very brief history lesson that the political press prefers to ignore. At the Democratic National Convention in 1992, Jerry Brown, who finished a very distant second to ...