Many new and old media pundits may feel President Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last night was not his best, a disappointment, a lot of restated campaign talking points and overall not the strongest speech of the convention. But it turns out as Buzzflash notes his main messaged broke through quite well on the front pages of key swing state newspapers.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.