| Journalism and the October Surprise | | Date Created: Nov 02, 2004, 02:20 PM |
 What are journalists to do when a big story that could affect the outcome of an election breaks late in the campaign? That's the question that is dealt with in a New York Times story.
This sort of thing has happened several times now:
In 2000 it was George W. Bush's drunk driving record;
Earlier this year it was sexual harassment allegations against Arnold Schwarzenegger;
This election it was the story about all those missing explosives in Iraq. At first the administration offered satellite pictures to say that Saddam moved the weapons before the invasion. Then Minneapolis television station KSTP showed video it had shot at Al-Qaqaa several weeks after the fall of Baghdad. The video appears to show the explosives that are now missing. |
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