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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (23901)	1/11/2004 3:26:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793800

She showed just how stupid that is. Dowd has now written two absolutely awful columns in a row. Time for an intervention.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (23901)	1/11/2004 3:48:56 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793800

Dean moves to the Bush/Gore mode of Media relations. Dean edges from media as some ask why By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 1/11/2004 Democratic presidential candidate and Time and Newsweek cover boy Howard Dean tried not to make news this week. Asked by reporters to discuss a possible middle-class tax cut first reported by the Globe, Dean initially said he'd be "happy" do so before clamming up and acknowledging that "I'm not allowed to say I'm `happy' to do anything anymore." On Thursday, ABC News's sharp-elbowed online campaign digest, The Note, unveiled a list of "questions shouted at Governor Dean and his advisers yesterday that were not answered." With about a dozen reporters constantly following Dean -- and with the former Vermont governor buffeted by a few weeks of controversy concerning his views on everything from religion to the capture of Saddam Hussein -- journalists say they detect a more concerted effort to shield the candidate from chance and politically hazardous encounters with the media. Noting that the 2000 campaign produced the John McCain model of giving the press near-total access to the candidate and the George Bush and Al Gore model of "controlled accessibility," ABC News political director Mark Halperin said, "The Dean people seemed to have gone month after month after month with the McCain model, and now they see some virtue in the Bush and Gore model." "I wouldn't say there was a decision that he wouldn't talk the media, no," responded Dean communication director Tricia Enright. She added that a recent reduction in the number of Dean media "availabilities" with the traveling press corps was "just a matter of the ebbs and flows of a campaign . . . . You're talking about a schedule that's going to get much tighter." Journalists shadowing Dean say that whether it's schedule or strategy, regular access to the candidate is tightening. Felix Schein, an MSNBC staffer "embedded" with Dean, added: "There's certainly a change. We're into a lot of process stories at the moment, and the [Dean] campaign has made the decision not to have the governor be the public face of their response." According to these reporters, one manifestation of the evolving ground rules between candidate and journalist is a line of demarcation inside the campaign plane that creates a boundary between "off- and "on-the-record" conversations and serves as a source of some amusement. Despite some media frustration with the more circumspect Dean, but several observers expressed doubt that a candidate who seems to enjoy the give and take of a spirited discussion would ever go into full media-avoidance mode. "He's not going to shut down. It's not him," Halperin said. "I've seen him stop and talk to Swedish TV. From the point of view of a political professional, he was too accessible." © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company. © Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company