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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."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:58 PM

    @jim

    a huge slice of the populace -- especially those who remember Cronkite, Huntley, Brinkley et al. -- take network news at face value and are happy to be relieved by the networks' legendary claim to legitimacy of having to question, analyze, compare or in general use their brains.

    Trying to find stats.

    http://people-press.org/report/215/news-audiences-increasingly-politicized

    from 2004 does not have more than 32% of the audience believing all or most of CNN and CNN was in the lead.

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