1.   ----- It is the journalistic equivalent of a family values campaign.

2.   For the most part, the questions were the journalistic equivalent of a batting practice meatball, and, for the most part, Albert settled for soft singles.

3.   For years The Evening Sun, the newspaper of H.L. Mencken, has been on the journalistic equivalent of a death watch.

4.   Gone is the self-editing, the elliptical responses that made profiling her the journalistic equivalent of covering, say, geology as it happens.

5.   It is the journalistic equivalent of the naked bootleg, the football play in which the quarterback deserts his blockers and runs alone against the opposing team.

6.   This is not meant as a compliment to Rivera, whose relentless self-promotion based on little substance makes him more the journalistic equivalent of Ginger Spice than Ginger Rogers.

7.   What we saw was the journalistic equivalent of two cars going around and around in circles.