NYT Rejects McCain's Editorial

Originally posted by Quazga

Yes, it needs to mirror Obamas piece.

For example, Obama gave details of his plan.

McCain gave no details, but only attacked Obama.


They are looking for op ed pieces that can allow their readers to compare and contrast based on the same kind of article.

We do this all the time in product reviews. And we get the same response. We try to get vendors to explain to us their capabilities as defined within certain categories, that way our readers can compare and contrast vendor products as an apples to apples comparison.

This is the same thing the NYT wants to do, but Because McCains camp doesn't actually have a plan yet, they are dithering.

Originally posted by RRconservative

Originally posted by Quazga

Yes, it needs to mirror Obamas piece.

For example, Obama gave details of his plan.

McCain gave no details, but only attacked Obama.


They are looking for op ed pieces that can allow their readers to compare and contrast based on the same kind of article.

We do this all the time in product reviews. And we get the same response. We try to get vendors to explain to us their capabilities as defined within certain categories, that way our readers can compare and contrast vendor products as an apples to apples comparison.

This is the same thing the NYT wants to do, but Because McCains camp doesn't actually have a plan yet, they are dithering.

So what you are saying is if McCain came out with his op-ed first, they would have turned down Obama's because it didn't miror McCain's?

That would have never happened. Obama could call the NY Times right now and demand a whole page add and pay hardly anything for it. They did it for Move-on.org and the anti-Petraeous ad, so why wouldn't they do it for Obama?

No, I'm saying they asked both candidates for details of their plans, and even let the McCain Camp go second as a rebuttal, but only the Obama camp ended up playin ball.

Probably because McCain/s advisers hadn't anything to say in rebuttal.