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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 08:23 PM
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Media continues to report Hastert's charge that Dems are behind Foley scan
Media continue to uncritically report Hastert's baseless charge that Dems are behind Foley scandal

Beyond ignoring the disclosures from The Hill and Ross that the leaked emails came from Republicans, Block and Gregory repeated Hastert's charge despite a Chicago Tribune report from that morning that "enior Republican officials contacted Hastert's office before his news conference Thursday to urge that he not repeat the charges, and he backed away from them in his news conference." Read More

http://mediamatters.org/items/200610060007
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 08:26 PM
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1. Because they get paid to promote the preferred storyline of the GOP.
You don't think that the GOPs bought control over most broadcast media in the 80s and 90s to get the truth out did you?
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