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New York times, publishes Obama’s op-ed essay but refuses John McCain’s
By Amy Wood
Monday, July 21, 2008
Rejected. That’s what presidential hopeful John McCain’s people say happened when the Senator submitted an essay to The New York Times. In it McCain defends his Iraq war policy. This coming a week after the Times published an essay by Obama.
Opinion Page Editor David Shipley emailed the campaign and said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be “pleased, though, to look at another draft.”
“Let me suggest an approach,” he wrote Friday. “The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece.”
You can read the McCain essay the Times rejected here.
Read the essay written by Barak Obama, published in The New York Times last week.
In a statement released Monday, The New York Times said it is “standard procedure on our Op-Ed page, and that of other newspapers, to go back and forth with an author on his or her submission.”
“We look forward to publishing Senator McCain’s views in our paper just as we have in the past. We have published at least seven Op-Ed pieces by Senator McCain since 1996. The New York Times endorsed Senator McCain as the Republican candidate in the presidential primaries. We take his views very seriously,” the statement said.
So do you think the paper is being unfair, or is this just routine vetting of an essay before it gets published?
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COMMENTS
I will be so glad when all this is OVER!!!
I just whish that Mitt would still be in the race.
Just another example of a large newspaper trying to sway voters! Why doesn’t the newspaper just put “We Support Obama” and get it over with!
We the media, in order to form a more perfect..blah blah blah elect Barack Obama!
Why don’t they just do that..they are going to cause poor McCain to have heart failure if they keep on!
Hey wait..does that mean that the next in line would be Huckabee? I would vote for him! Just am not going to vote now if it is Obama vs. McCain. Both are bad choices for America today. Either George Bush III or a very inexperienced senator????
REALLY, what if something happened to Obama or McCain..or both. Would that be a HIllary vs. Huckabee showdown? If anyone knows the answer, let me know. MY kids keep asking me and I don’t have a clue!
I’ve been both edited and rejected, based on whether or not what I had written was what the editor wanted. It would have been preferrential treatment to publish the piece just because he’s running for president. I respect the decision. Getting published works that way. It’s sort of encouraging to know that John McCain gets the same treatment the rest of us do.
Duh! And they wonder why their subscibership has plummeted.
Americans are tired of jaundiced media; they like news, not the opinions of the “so-called” media moguls.
Hopefully, their subscibership will continue to fall. And, perhaps, they will sense the message.
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