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Reporter's Notebook: Gwen Ifill on How Campaigns Confront Rumors

By Politics Desk on July 1, 2008

In a conversation with the NewsHour’s Steve Goldbloom on Monday, Senior NewsHour Correspondent Gwen Ifill discussed how campaigns confront Internet rumors and whether patriotism is a legitimate campaign issue.

“Every candidate has to reintroduce themself at some point in the campaign, especially after the nomination has been clinched. But for Barack Obama it’s a bigger deal because people, it turns out, people not only don’t know that much about him but what they think they know is so often not true,” Ifill said.

MP3: Listen to the complete conversation (4:50)

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  • Posted:
    07/ 3/08 at
    03:38 PM
    William DenverCO : My wife and I are daily listeners of PBS and learn of news, or other topics while driving to work. We have other sources of gathering information. It is my opinion that with today�s numerous forms of media outlets, we all can get plenty of information if we seek it or care to learn. I always rely on credible sources, like PBS, to separate facts from rumors. If the same facts are talked about in two or more credible sources then I take it as a true fact.
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