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Obama in the No Spin Zone

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posted on 2015-09-23, 09:40 authored by Ian Hutchby
In the run - up to the 2008 American presidential election, the three Senators who were competing to replace outgoing President George W. Bush in the White House ( John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) each gave extended interviews to cable channel Fox News ' nightly show The O ' Reilly Factor . Billed as the ' No Spin Zone ' , this news programme and its eponymous host, Bill O ' Reilly, pride themselves on cutting through the ' spin ' of political communications machines, the ' bloviation ' of politicians and the ' bias ' of major newspapers and broadcast network news channels to reveal for viewers the ' truth ' or the ' bottom line ' with regard t o current affairs. Because of his willingness to engage in tendentious, argumentative and sometimes confrontational discourse in the course of his interviews , O'Reilly is a controversial figure in contemporary American broadcast news . But despite his belligerent reputation , he has secured many high profile interviews for his show, including at least two major ' sit - downs ' with President Barack Obama. The first of these, conducted during the campaign leading to Obama's success in the 2008 election, provides t he data for this chapter. [First paragraph]

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Hutchby, I, Obama in the No Spin Zone, ed. Ekström, M;Tolson, A, 'Media Talk and Political Elections in Europe and America', Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 41-62

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978-1-137-27331-4;9781137273338

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2013

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2016-10-31

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Ekstrom, M;Tolson, A

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