It’s hard to keep a secret.
The Obama campaign did an extraordinary job this week keeping tightlipped on Barack Obama’s choice for a vice presidential nominee. That was until early this morning, when word came that the choice was Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.
The news leaked to the media after midnight on the East Coast. The Associated Press filed a story, quoting a Democratic source. And The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., text-messaged its subscribers and posted the news on its Web site. Because the first deadline for its printed edition had passed, The News Journal’s front page only indicated that the choice might be Biden.
The Obama campaign, which had said it would announce the choice by text-messaging supporters, was left to do text-messaging of its own after 3 a.m. E-mail alerts didn't reach some supporters until the afternoon.
Because of the timing, definitive news on the choice made front-page headlines only in Western time zones. The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian of Portland, The Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune and The Seattle Times, among others, had the news.
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