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No pack reporting, please

DISCUSSIONS | May 27, 2006


Geneva Overholser
Genevaoh@aol.com

1986 Nieman fellow; Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, Missouri School of Journalism/Washington, D.C., bureau

My main concern is that we all rush to cover the same thing. We need to be using our increasingly scarce resources to cover DIFFERENT political stories. Some scandal breaks, and we all pile on, while problems arise elsewhere with no eyes on them.



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