"Gaining access to the Republican National Convention [3] has become a tortuous struggle for a slew of local ethnic publications," reports a New York City weekly. In Arizona [4], a Bush-Cheney [5] organizer "insisted on knowing the race of a ... journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney [6]," saying the information was needed "to distinguish her from someone else who might have the same name" - which seems unlikely, since her name is Mamta Popat. In New Mexico [7], "Democrats who signed up to hear [Cheney] speak ... were refused tickets unless they signed a pledge to endorse President Bush." One media analysis [8] company estimates that, with Iraq coverage [9] dominating the news, "67 percent of stories on Bush were negative, while only 36 percent were negative for Kerry [10]."