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Critiquing the Press

 washingtonpost.com: Marietta, Ga.: Did NBC’s David Gregory dye his eyebrows? My Mom thinks so, and she will hardly talk about anything else. Howard Kurtz: My condolences. I will put that at the absolute top of my list of investigative projects.

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OF DEWEY AND LIPPMAN

Noam Chomsky: Media Control by Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press, 2002 EARLY HISTORY OF PROPAGANDA p11 … the first modern government propaganda operation … was under the Woodrow Wilson Administration. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1916 on the platform “Peace Without Victory.” That was right in the middle of the World War I. The […]

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The Bush Administration Doesn’t Want You To Know:

TPMmuckraker December 18, 2006 * In March, the administration announced it would no longer producethe Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation, whichidentifies which programs best assist low-income families, while alsotracking health insurance coverage and child support. * In 2005, after a government report showed an increase in terrorism around the world, the administration […]

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Cartoonist relaxed when he saw CNN was covering standoff

lPoynter Online – Romenesko: Cartoonist relaxed when he saw CNN was covering standoff Romenesko Misc. Former El Nuevo Herald cartoonist Jose Varela tells Mega TV: “I never thought my life was in danger [during last Friday’s Miami Herald Building standoff]. Yes, I got scared when the SWAT team shut down the lights in the building, […]

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Bob Woodward, the Dumb Blonde of American Journalism

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Each day brings slam-dunk evidence that the doomsday threats marshaled by the administration to sell the war weren’t, in Cheney-speak, just dishonest and reprehensible but also corrupt and shameless… The web of half-truths and falsehoods used to sell the war did not happen by accident; it was woven by design […]

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