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By Eric Alterman

This article appeared in the August 13, 2007 edition of The Nation.

July 26, 2007

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  • How long will it take before the Murdoch owned WSJ runs a front page piece--with color pics--of a story with this headline? "Stock Traders Gone Wild!"

    Greg Bacon

    Ava, MO

    08/01/2007 @ 06:52am


  • Eric Alterman writes: "...the fact that young people are more likely to be killed by terrorists than to buy a daily newspaper subscription or turn on the evening news." Could we see some documentation for this claim? Is this the same hyperbole he castigates Bill Kristol for?

    There's no need for such overreaching in an article that has a very real, very important point to make about the media in the US.

    Bryan Murley

    Charleston, IL

    07/27/2007 @ 2:47pm


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