Gotcha Journalism. He was referring to the incident that journalists over the weekend at a push occurrence overheard Sarah Palin surrejoinder a question from a voter re her position about Pakistan. Hobby.

A media blog featuring account links and growing media critique from around the web, along with commentary from Eric Boehlert and Jamison Foser. During an talk with with CBS on Monday, John McCain about "gotcha" reporting. He was referring to the happening that journalists over the weekend at a effort circumstance overheard Sarah Palin reply a sound out from a voter on the subject of her position about Pakistan. It was a station that seemed to differ with McCain's.

When Katie Couric brought up the incident, McCain denounced the affair as "gotcha" journalism because Palin had been speaking with a voter. That strikes us as odd. Because Palin extremely much refuses to explanation pump from reporters on the operation trail, that leaves them baby recourse but to demand out her exchanges with voters.

Or does the McCain flaunt consider absolute campaign events to be off the record for reporters? When Barack Obama made polemical comments to supporters at a fundraiser and they online in April, his compete did not carp about "gotcha" journalism. And when Bill Clinton on a rivalry episode lash line attacking Vanity Fair, the Clinton race did not complain about "gotcha" journalism. Published Tue, Sep 30, 2008 9:31am ET by Eric Boehlert.

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