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Sex, Lies and No Key Messages

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Ok, given that there’s only six decent stories a year in the Land of the Long White Shroud, let’s start overseas shall we?  When it comes to Media Training 101 here’s a great example of What Not To Do.  The subject, South Carolina’s hapless Governor,  Mark Sanford, who told his staff he was going hiking on the Appalachian Trail, when in fact he was chasing beaver in Argentina.  A year before political junkies could have detected that the little brain was thinking for the big one, when he went on CNN to defend Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain’s policies. What’s wrong with this picture? Read more…