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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Elana Schor

When subtext becomes text

As reporters in the capital suffer from primary day whiplash brought on by the Clinton camp's rapidly evolving spin, the Wall Street Journal offers a perfect reminder about why the former first lady can get shoddy treatment from the media: she treats the media just as shoddily.

In Texas yesterday, the subtext became text. Journal reporter Jackie Calmes writes that ink-stained wretches such as herself were sent to file stories from the men's bathroom.

That left the unlikely scene of Tina Brown -- former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, friend and biographer of Princess Diana -- gamely typing away close to a toilet. Or, should we say, the loo.


Paging Larry Craig?

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