We just have to add an observation here: No matter who the questioner is, whether it’s George Stephanopoulos or Lou Dobbs, the candidates have mouths of their own.
That doesn't sound anywhere near serious - unless "Kate Phillips" is actually two people, "Kate" and "Phillip" - but the fun doesn't end there. In the very next paragraph she refers to a different "we," this time meaning herself and her readers:
And everyone knows that the candidates have all new ways of getting their message across in all new media because there are so many portals. We forget that sometimes.
Emphasis mine in both cases.
It's funny to think of the meaning of that second paragraph if the "we" meant the same as the first paragraph: "The New York Times sometimes forgets that there are many new types of media." I bet more than a few bloggers would agree with that.
I probably should've been hired at the Times right out of high school, if this is the type of stuff they want "us" to write. I don't really want to write for a living though, I'd rather someone just pay "us" to live.
By the way, you should check it out, the actual content of the article isn't any better.
