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ELECTION 2000 SPECIAL

He’s been like that through the whole presidential campaign. Political reporters are one of the Democrats’ most reliable constituencies; the fact that Alter, who splits his time between Newsweek and NBC, is rather partisan is hardly news. But it must be said that even a figure like George Stephanopoulos, who went from the Clinton administration to ABC, strives for objectivity and probably isn’t aware of the biases conservatives routinely detect in him. With Alter, it’s different: He is aware, and he’s clever about burying them in an aura of impartiality. It’s almost as if he were auditioning for the role of Sidney Blumenthal in a Gore administration.

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Richard Nadler is president of the Americas Majority Foundation, a public-policy think tank in Overland Park, Kan.

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ELECTION 2000 SPECIAL

He’s been like that through the whole presidential campaign. Political reporters are one of the Democrats’ most reliable constituencies; the fact that Alter, who splits his time between Newsweek and NBC, is rather partisan is hardly news. But it must be said that even a figure like George Stephanopoulos, who went from the Clinton administration to ABC, strives for objectivity and probably isn’t aware of the biases conservatives routinely detect in him. With Alter, it’s different: He is aware, and he’s clever about burying them in an aura of impartiality. It’s almost as if he were auditioning for the role of Sidney Blumenthal in a Gore administration.