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April 14, 2008

Citizen journalist scores Obama scoop

By Dominic wireposts

One of the Huffington Post’s network of 1,800 unpaid “citizen journalist” researchers scored a scoop for the UK website by reporting US presidential candidate Barack Obama’s controversial comments at a fundraising event in San Francisco. Referring to working class voters he said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy…”, the Guardian reports.

 

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