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You’ve heard about the book by Scott McClellan, Bush’s former Press Secretary. Well, not only does he accuse the Bush administration of playing fast and loose with the truth, he damns the White House press corps for being too soft on him. The MSM in the U.S. is deplorable. Now, we have [...]
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The MSM
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The Mainstream Media — MSM as they are known on the Internet. One of the main reasons I began blogging in the first place was to vent my frustration that the American MSM did not report on issues I cared about or felt newsworthy. During the Iraq war, I had to turn to [...]
I knew those Generals were biased
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I was reading a blog that reminded me to post something disturbing about biased coverage in the mainstream media (MSM). This is a little blurb on a story I caught a few days ago about all those military talking heads on the networks in the lead-up to war in Iraq. It seems those Generals [...]
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