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SDR
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 Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:50 am Post subject: Watergate coverage wrap-up (?) |
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An editorial in today's NY Times examines similarities between the news media of the Watergate era, and today's TV and print media and their coverage (or lack of it) of the Mark Felt revelation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12rich.html?th&emc=th
The power to suppress unflattering investigation and reporting grows ever stronger and more blatantly exercised, according to the author.
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