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CNN Election Center: Transcript for September 4 (9/4/08) by Wolf Blitzer
Reporter John King tells Cable News Network viewers why he thinks media should not "say the right is running the Republican campaign":We didn't say, during the Democratic convention, the teachers' unions and the SEIU and the AFL-CIO—are they running the Obama campaign?
This is a classic example of false balance at work. The idea that the Democratic National Convention was run by the teachers union and big labor is absurd; the Democrats' education platform endorsed merit pay, which teachers unions oppose, and the convention was markedly subdued on the trade issue. But to King, clearly, accuracy takes a back seat to "balance."
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