The Ticker: Elephants, “Propagandists,” Babies…

> CJR’s Megan Garber writes about the elephant in the control room. How NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has to navigate carefully around the reporting of the economic meltdown. She’s married to a central figure in the saga: former Fed. Chairman Alan Greenspan.

> The Washington Times’ Tony Blankley thinks, “The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign.”

> Jennifer Dauble, manager of Public Relations at CNBC, had her first child today. Ryan Christopher Dauble was born at 12:30pm. Erin Burnett gave a shout-out at the end of “Street Signs.”

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