Before he was ‘kinder, gentler,’ Poppy Bush pioneered TV ad lies
Thepress’ sporadic fact-checking efforts could not keep pacewith the Bush campaign’s lies. But therewas general agreement, after the election, that fact-checking shouldbecome more routine. Even the strategists in both parties called on the press to do it.
Dick Polman
Columnist
Opinion
Thirty years ago at The Philadelphia Inquirer, in the early autumn of 1988, I was handed my first assignment as a political writer. The presidential candidates, Vice President George H. W. Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, were saturating...
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