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Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:00 AM

The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams

Another story from the NYT further exposes the corruption of NBC's reliance on Gen. Barry McCaffrey as an "independent military analyst."

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 09:10 AM

    Weiner is a busy boy

    He also posted his "non-denial denial" [*] at

    http://politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1108/Will_networks_ignore_military_analyst_report.html

    Politico is more of a worry to McCaffrey and Weiner than is Salon.

    And even more of a worry is

    http://www.mediabistro.com/news/newsfeed/the_morning_newsfeed_120108_101990.asp

    which features the McCaffrey story as the first story in today's summary of media stories.

    The suits at NBC Universal may claim not to be generally browsing the NYTimes and the Politico and Salon, but they ALL pay attention to mediabistro.com and they can't credibly claim not to have seen the first story in today's mediabistro summary.

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    [*] Ironically, "non-denial denial" was the tactic used by and made famous by all the president's men in the early 70s - - when Weiner was emplyed by the DNC at the Watergate.

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