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Glenn - Great post, as always. But there's one flaw in your reasoning.You write:
>Because those conflicts were brought to light by the anti-war Nation, and because that article was published in April, 2003, as the country was drowning in a war-crazed frenzy, NBC was able to blithely dismiss these concerns, unbelievably telling The Nation that its military analysts' business interests were "not their concern."
As the networks have not deigned to respond to the Times in 2008 either, I don't think you can attribute their earlier nonresponse either to the venue or the time of the earlier article. Clearly, the statement that the analysts' business interests do not concern them is not unbelievable at all, but a simple fact. The implications of this are, if anything, even more troubling than those you point out.
