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How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon’s own words
“We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves.”
TNR’s Michael Crowley: McCain lynch mobs are no different than Bush critics
The modern Beltway journalist compulsively asserts equivalencies between each side without regard to whether they are actually the same.
The Right and mainstream America: a universe apart
New polls conclusively show that the desperate smears of Obama — along with increased exposure to Sarah Palin — are backfiring on John McCain.
Salon Radio: ACLU’s Jonathan Hafetz on Guantanamo cases
Why is the Bush administration continuing to imprison 17 detainees in Guantánamo who it acknowledges are innocent? And what is the latest on the president’s power to imprison U.S. citizens as “enemy combatants”?
Dan Balz’s corrupted journalistic “balance”
The attempt to equate “character attacks” as coming from “both sides” in the campaign is not “balance”; it’s just false.

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