Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal

May 20, 2003

: Challenging the story line…

The Union Leader is challenging the master narrative Howard Dean is selling. In this profile–that Taegan Goddard describes as “accurate”–reporter Ross Sneyd writes:

Howard Dean may be many things, say those who worked with him over nearly a dozen years as Vermont governor, but an elitist liberal is hardly one of them.

He’s actually a lot more moderate - many would say conservative - than the reputation he’s built during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

For a look at how master narratives are created and their effects, see my evolving series on press-politics and nomination campaigns.

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