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Friday, July 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Little outbursts of journalism -- what causes them?

Various media outlets exercise the basic function of journalism by pointing out the deceit behind the President's new Iraq rhetoric.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Friday, July 13, 2007 05:54 AM

    Inspiring

    But slow and incremental progress of this sort is the only kind that is viable, and ultimately, the only kind that really matters.

    Well said.

    Anybody notice that even in this "disorienting" article, the writers still needed the standard journalistic peg of "...critics say..." in order to squeeze this out. I wonder - did the McClatchy writers need this dodge?

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