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Tapped: Message Board Journalism (8/4/08) by Adam Serwer
Reading blog posts about a Wall Street Journal article based on the Onion-like premise that voters find Barack Obama too skinny to be president, Serwer exposes the reality of reporter Amy Chozick's quote: "'I won't vote for any beanpole guy,' another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board":
It was Chozick herself who started the message board.... Of the three independent responses, two were mocking Chozick for posing the question.... The anonymous posting on the message board is one of the only two people quoted in the article as actually criticizing Obama for being "too fit." [No More Mister Nice Blog writer] Steve M. further points out that one sentence in the article—"These days he stays away from junk food and instead snacks on MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and drinks Black Forest Berry Honest Tea, a healthy organic brew"—is only slightly different from a description of Obama given by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis.
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