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Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation

The death of Bruce Ivins raises far more questions than it answers
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  • Sunday, August 3, 2008 09:20 AM

    Facts and the truth are just too messy...

    I think the main danger is that the media, in the corporate role model, has spoon fed it's audience with juicy entertainment distractions to help the MSM transgress from a viable delivery vehicle of truth into just sidelined, well paid and groomed folks who now are simply regulated to being the arbiters of nothing more than a conventional wisdom type of fairness. The details are just too disturbing and change really means pain. And of course loss of the golden knee pad connections for the beautiful talking heads.

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