In recent days, reports from the Daily Caller website reveal a large network of left-leaning reporters, activists and academics who collaborated on ways to help President Obama during the 2008 campaign – from trying to minimize Jeremiah Wright story to the immediate targeting of Sarah Palin once she was announced as John McCain’s running mate. How was this effort organized? How did they plot to go after Palin and what does this tell us about present-day journalism? We ask Jamie Weinstein, deputy editor at The Daily Caller.
