tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63173032011-04-21T22:02:23.009-07:00The journalistic-related program activities of Reuters' Patricia WilsonAeolushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287987028553997238noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317303.post-1078526420698896782004-03-05T14:37:00.000-08:002004-03-05T14:43:22.530-08:00

Wilson's just great today reporting on Kerry's jobs speech. She adds details on what Bush has forecast for job growth before she adds the empty quote from the Bushcamp.

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Wilson's take on the complex Kerry, who's not just an "aloof" blueblood, who "can wander into linguistic thickets". She touches on the key element of his campaign strategy, the fact that he plays ball with the bored, cynical journalists on the campaign plane. "The New Englander is not always easy to pigeonhole as aloof. On his campaign plane, Kerry does sometimes sit alone, quietly playing

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It was a long plane ride to LA. Kerry wouldn't talk to us about politics. But Patricia Wilson has to crank out something, preferably with some controversy. Kerry hasn't seen that Mel Gibson movie, doesn't know if he will, he's careful, ever-cautious. Watch it JFK, hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned.

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Patricia Wilson again serves up a nice set of wire-service stories that puts AP's Nedra Pickler to shame, with this as the latest . Notice how she only takes one relevant Bush campaign quote to provide the requisite "balance" to the story. I really like the way Wilson works this Kerry message in, A decorated Vietnam War veteran who has campaigned on his combat record, Kerry said it was time "to

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More fine work from Wilson. Why aren't more local dailies running work of this quality instead of the hash that Nedra Pickler makes of the news.

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Patricia Wilson following Kerry. Once again, an example of what really good wire service reporting can be like.

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In contrast to rival Nedra Pickler, Patricia Wilson doesn't take the bait offerred by Max Cleland, in her version of Kerry's response to Saxby "Trick-knee" Chambliss' unsubstantiated attacks on Kerry's voting record. Instead, she describes the designated mudslinger as "Senator Saxby Chambliss, a leading Georgia Republican" It's one of those falsely-balanced side A says, side B responds stories

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Wilson reports on the Democratic campaign for the Presidential nomination. Workmanlike effort, but Nedra Pickler really outshines her today. Banner day for wire service journalism when we have the two major reporters pumping out good stuff.

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Patricia Wilson makes two contributions to our annual holiday where we all can show our disdain for numbers. First, on Kerry's victory Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry on Tuesday eked out a victory over John Edwards ... In a subdued victory speech, Kerry, who is fighting a cold and dealing with a persistent cough, neither mentioned the narrow margin of his win -- just a few

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Patricia Wilson with a dynamite wire-service piece.

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Patricia Wilson back on the campaign trail , now vying with archrival Nedra Pickler in covering Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry. Wilson's first piece features two of the RNC major strategies. If you're not familar with Rovian agitprop, it follows some standard themes. First is the Big Lie. Find your biggest vulnerabilities and accuse your opponent of that very flaw. Republicans

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Nedra Pickler posts again from the Kerry campaign. Nothing from Patricia Wilson. Has Nedra finally triumphed in this rivalry between the two queens of the wires? Or will Ms. Wilson turn up with the frontrunner again ? Or is Reuters thinking of outsourcing their coverage of the Presidential election?

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Patricia Wilson sets her byline in Flint, Michigan, hometown of her archrival Nedra Pickler. The story adds a "do-or-die" in the Badger state fillip to Wilson's standard Dean=loser story, but the real question is "Where's Nedra?" Pickler's story today relies on quotes from Dean's website, leading to speculation that Nedra may finally have been kicked off the Dean press junket, cruelly

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Longshot ! Wilson keeps rewriting Dean's obituary as " the longshot-turned-hotshot who is now the longest of long shots ... reached for a glazed doughnut, despite the 12 pounds he says he has packed onto his stocky frame over the past few months, fuel for a sputtering campaign."

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Latest Patricia Wilson, abbreviated perfunctory campaign stops ... floundering…dismissing… fallen front-runner… struggling to keep his campaign afloat…unemployed …a black, an immigrant and a Hispanic at his hotel …not scheduled to return …not advertising …hard choices… dismal showings … forced him to change strategy… reeling campaign …looking down the road … for a lifeline…high-flying campaign

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Wilson laces a story with representative quotes from Dr. Dean

Aeolushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287987028553997238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317303.post-1075399151675145162004-01-29T09:56:00.000-08:002004-01-29T10:09:33.670-08:00

Here's the text af what Dean is saying in Michigan today. Is it possible that you could actually quote part of what he says, instead of giving us one more story where you figure out another clever way to talk about his "campaign"? The "hopscotched" bit was cute, but Dean's words are eloquent. Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire have cast their ballots. The 2004 election is underway. The

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Republican political advisers today took credit for "successfully tarring Dean as an angry liberal", as they figure out how to slam Kerry. Here's how Patricia Wilson contributes to the effort to bury Dean in her report on Dean's campaign shake-up. Guess she didn't get the "buyers remorse" memo. Dean is "struggling" after "crushing losses " with an effort .."try to steady his slide from

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New Hampshire has one of those open primaries, where you can pretty much vote for anyone in any primary. Pending final results, but it looks like in total votes, the finish is Kerry first, Dean 2nd, Bush 3rd. Patricia Wilson reports on Dean's solid second place finish, but neglects to compare Republican candidate George Bush's "disastrous third place finish" with Dean's similar setback in Iowa.

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One of the lessons we can learn over time is the difference between Wilson's immediate observations on January 19th to the changing descriptions as the media storm whirled. January 19th "His voice raspy, Dean, who finished a stunning third in the first contest of the 2004 White House race after once being one of the favorites in Iowa, shouted to supporters, "We are not only going to New

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In an article centered on dirty tricks, Wilson sneaks in the unrelated recycling of an RNC attack "Neither Dean nor his campaign immediately pointed the finger at any particular opponent. Late last year, Dean got into hot water by perpetuating a rumor he had heard that Bush knew in advance of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks"

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Wilson on Dean, his wife, and other candidates and their wives in New Hampshire. A light-hearted, affectionate article, again so much better than AP's version.

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Wilson from New Hampshire Some dubious constructions, like this one, "A doctor who has no hands-on foreign policy experience and whose campaign was built on an anti-war, anti-establishment message". I hope AP will start qualifying every quote by Kerry or Edwards on health-care with "a senator, who has no hands-on medical experience". And this "reinforcing Dean's image among some as an "angry"

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Wow, here's a journalist reporting on what a candidate is saying, with solid background, relevant accurate facts, no horse race stuff, no media spin. Expanded for USA today where it's even better. "In a book about Paul O'Neill's tenure as Treasury secretary, Greenspan was quoted as saying Bush's 2001 tax cuts — if implemented without "triggers" to cancel them if budget deficits swelled — would

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On the infinite hall of mirrors. AP reports on blogs, including the Wilgoren Watch. Coming soon, reports in Wired and on NPR regarding the Adopt-a-journalist movement. Yes, the American media has gone from reporting on itself to reporting on reporting on itself. And I'm reporting on that. I'm dizzy. I seem to remember that there was some political stuff going on somewhere in America, but I can

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Wilson today. Compared to trash like this over-the-top LA Times piece, Wilson is the most professional of the national journalists today. As to the whole growing fascination and embellisment of the media pack and the rant, here's Rittenhouse Review It’s just the latest of the media’s effort to steer their collective coverage away from the hard stuff, like issues, issues they have proved time

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Wilson today, while significantly better than AP's Pickler, is still almost deliberately misrepresenting Dean's Taking Back Our Democracy statement today, and the other substantive comments in his remarks. Here's BlogforAmerica's summary of Dean's remarks. "Can't we get beyond the cynical pandering of both parties that promise people everything and don't stand up for what is good for the

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Less red meat for Dean, updated to drop Dean to "White House hopeful" from "Presidential hopeful". I'm really appreciating Wilson's finely-tuned sentences, like this one, where she comes to terms with Dean's caucus night screed. So much better than Wilgoren. His fire can translate as anger. On Monday night, he literally shouted out his speech to supporters in Iowa, at times reaching screaming

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Wilson updates from Dean's early AM Portsmouth rally. A long night, as BlogforAmerica reports "and then Joan Jett took the stage while an exhausted-looking press corps wearily sat down to file their stories". On the ground we have an incredibly vivid live report.

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A flattering portrait of Kerry on the night of his biggest victory. Wilson's prose shines in this passage, Kerry's Iowa campaign centered around several promises: Leadership without power sharing by special interests, health insurance for all as good as the best available, a technology hunt to end dependence on oil so U.S. servicemen will no longer be held "hostage" to it and an inclusive policy

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Wilson straightforward on "body blow" to Dean's campaign in Iowa. If anything, she's charitable in not painting a more accurate picture of Dean's speech to his supporters tonight.

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Patricia Wilson on Judith Dean's surprise visit to Iowa. Have to compliment her on finally getting the hockey dad angle into a story, "Dean calls his wife every day, often from his campaign plane. He tries to get home to Burlington at least four times a month and hates to miss his son Paul's ice hockey games." Meanwhile, Nedra Pickler has clearly returned to her mangling form on the same story.

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Wilson delivers a good piece of wire-service work again. I had a chance to view the Carter/Dean press conference, and this piece captures it well. The obvious question is why Wilson feels it necessary to replay the fact-esque "Dean can't tell one testament from the other" wingnut obsession. That this was reported to begin with was a "gotcha" artifact of journalism, where a misstatement in a

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Patricia Wilson lets Dean do the talking today with four quotes from the candidate himself. Still process-oriented, but a huge improvement over the stories that state the conventional wisdom of the media as fact, or cite unnamed "critics" or "opponents". Good crisp writing.

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Two busloads of reporters following Dean. Today they're all writing the groundgame day story. If they don't write the "now it's all about who can get their troops to the caucus" story, or if Dean sees his shadow, we have six more weeks of caucus. Dean's sweater is new and blue, his bus was used by Aretha Franklin and the Four Tops, Truman's name comes up frequently. I saw snippets of his

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Another highly professional piece from Patricia Wilson today, later update here . You can compare it with Nedra Pickler's longer take, the New York Times more intimate piece, which describes Moseley Braun as "eloquent" and has more inside details of the Dean endorsement negotiations. The Washington Post, integrates this into their daily Iowa story. In her update, Wilson takes the first

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Patricia Wilson solid today covering Dean's comments on South America. Good lead, nice quotes, a few background sentences. Reuters reported on Bush's Mexico trip including this money quote "he is now seeking support from Hispanic voters for his re-election bid this year, and is trying to win back allies in an increasingly troublesome region. It will be no easy task.", Reuters did much better

Aeolushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287987028553997238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317303.post-1074007599836525262004-01-13T07:13:00.001-08:002004-01-13T09:40:11.873-08:00

When political correspondent John Whiteside takes over, and Patricia Wilson is out of the picture, we see Reuters delivering much more traditional coverage, without the emotive adjectivies and regurgitation of the RNC talking points. Here, and here. It's still mostly horse-race stuff, but it's recognizable as "news". The Boston Globe here gives a better take.

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Such a nice solid article from Reuters Showed up in my searches because Patricia Wilson contributed to it. Substantial quotes, good writing, lots of viewpoints, neutral language. Does anyone else still remember the Tomorrowland Mission to Mars with its vibrating chairs that gave you that accelleration special effect? Somehow the future of my childhood was much more exciting than today's.

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What happened in the Democratic Presidential campaign in 2003? Any moderately perceptive observer would note one obvious phenomenon. Millions of moderate and liberal Americans became horrified by the success of the radical right, and by the Democratic leadership's failure to mount an effective critique. While many of us were wishful that some core competency in Washington would ultimately

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Will Patricia Wilson be "on-the-ropes" for missing this story? In the vicious "catfight" of wire service journalism, you can't afford not to be "leader-of the pack". The only way to recover from being scooped will be to add some additional fillip to the story. Maybe she can provoke yet another flash of anger from Dean, or show how Lieberman, in his compassion, has been wiring money to help

Aeolushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287987028553997238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317303.post-1073924241462581572004-01-12T08:08:00.000-08:002004-01-14T18:12:30.466-08:00

It's a dogfight, or maybe it's a heavyweight bout. Definitely time for Ms. Wilson to focus a little on not mixing metaphors. And here's a little style note from American Heritage, prompted by her description of Gore's "fulsome praise" Usage Note: Fulsome is often used to mean “offensively flattering or insincere.” But the word is also used, particularly in the expression fulsome praise, to

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AP's Nedra Pickler, queen of wire service manglers, did a bettter job than Ms. Wilson on her Dean heckler story. "Dale Ungerer, a retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa, lectured Dean for nearly three minutes near the end of a forum aimed at winning voters for Iowa's Jan. 19 caucuses" At least Nedra pointed out that Dean patiently listened three minutes to a heckler before telling him to sit down and listen

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Contact information for Patricia Wilson Reuters America - Patricia Wilson, White House Correspondent : patricia.wilson@reuters.com Phone: (202) 898-8300 Fax: (202) 898-8383 Address: 1333 H St NW, Washington, DC 20005 Courtesy of takebackthemedia

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Reuters principles We are committed to reporting the facts and in all situations avoid the use of emotive terms. The only exception is when we are quoting someone directly or in indirect speech. We aim to report objectively actions, identity and background and pay particular attention to all our coverage in extremely sensitive regions. We do not take sides and attempt to reflect in our stories

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Here's where we start with Patricia Wilson. A sharply angled piece detailing a moment of the Iowa campaign. Did Karl Rove offer a bounty for the first reporter to publish a proof source after the Daily Show so aptly ridiculed the Angry Dean theme? The Republican machine is working overtime to frame the image of Howard Dean. Their minions at the wire services compete to publish the official line

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Atrios leads. We follow. I've chosen to adopt Reuters journalist Patricia Wilson. As I figure out how to do this, I hope that this will co-evolve with the Wilgoren watch -Aeolus

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