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Papers sell Obama gear . . . and their Objectivity?
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether the media have gone overboard in their reaction to the election of Barack Obama. Howard Kurtz fretted this week in a Washington Post column about, as the headline said, "A Giddy Sense of Boosterism," surrounding Obama's Nov. 4 ...
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LAT's Obama boom: $686,000
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... , newspapers continue reaping the benefits of Obama's win. The LA Times James Rainey finds out how much his paper's made off Obama-related merchandise in the past couple weeks. ...

Not Waiting For The Asteroid
small dead animals — Not Waiting For The Asteroid [image] " But what about all the Obama gear that newspapers from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post are selling? Can you really hawk Obama T-shirts, coffee mugs, framed front pages and maintain ... ... any sense of journalistic impartiality?" Posted by Kate at November 21, 2008 3:52 PM

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