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Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:00 AM

The political fringe

The views that our media depict as "centrist" and "serious" are ones that are rejected by increasingly large majorities of Americans.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:24 PM

    I wish we had an independent press.

    Thank God for Glenn Greenwald. Every post I read makes sense, because he backs it up with statistics and facts. Too few people in the mass media have ever heard of relying on something other than "conventional wisdom." As if conventional wisdom were even readily identifiable as wisdom in the first place. After all, conventional wisdom for 16-year-olds tells us that Mountain Dew prevents pregnancy, and c.w. for 20 and 30 and 40-year-olds doesn't do much better.

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