With less than three months to go until the presidential election, the profusion of media spin about Barack Obama — pro and con — has gone into overdrive. For this potential president, who was virtually unknown in the national news media just five years ago, the battle over his public image has been notably compressed.

Observing this process as a media critic, and as an elected Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention, I've been fascinated by the ways in which v ...

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