Media News - Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Obama still facing fallout over private comments - made public - disparaging small-town voters
Sen. Barack Obama was still dealing with negative reactions to his unguarded, disparaging comments over the psyche of white small town voters during a televised forum on faith and politics on Sunday. Obama had not been aware that one of the supporters attending the closed-door private event was a citizen-journalist who was recording his speech. The comments were not made known until April 11 because after recording Obama's speech at the private fundraiser in San Francisco on April 6, Obama supporter Mayhill Fowler spent several days conflicted over what to do about the comments. Fowler was part of an experiment by the Huffington Post in citizen journalism that uses 1,800 unpaid journalists and researchers. Finally, Fowler published Obama's comments on Friday after deciding, "As a citizen journalist she had a duty to report the event, despite her support for Barack Obama," Amanda Michel, the director of the project, told the Guardian. (AHN)
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