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Project for Excellence in Journalism
In the six weeks following the conventions through the final debate, unfavorable stories about John McCain outweighed favorable ones by a factor of more than three to one, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. It finds that Sarah Palin's portrayal in the press isn't the major factor hurting McCain. Her coverage, while tilting negative, is far more positive than her running mate's. || Phoenix mag on Matthew Scully: Palin speechwriter's '80's-era columns in the State Press were scholarly, moralistic and elitist.