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Monday, August 16, 2004

# Posted 1:52 PM by Patrick Belton  

A GREAT DAY ON THE WASHINGTON POST WEBSITE: First story: 'Phelps Loses Key Race: U.S. swimmer now can't tie Mark Spitz's record of seven golds.' Yeah, man, what a loser. Second story: Kiss and Blog: Post's April Witt takes questions on hill staffer's steamy online diary. Whoa - must be ratings week.

Not tangentially, the thought occured to me as I was covering the convention that the principal reason why we've got an insubstantial politics in this country is that we've got an insubstantial press. That was the case when the New York Times was neglecting the fascinating ideas, operatives, and strategies floundering about Boston in order to squander pages on human interest stories about Southern delegates eating clam chowder in Copley Place, and it is the case now as well.

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