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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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>1. Disinfomania!
>2. Bill Kristol Is Going To Get His War
>3. US-Funded Radio Sawa Big Hit In Middle East
>4. No More French Fries for Congress
>5. Secretive U.S. "Information" Office Back
>6. Pentagon Ready For Primetime
>7. Smart-mobbing the War
>8. Bayer's Headache
>9. News Conference "Scripted," Reporters Silenced
>10. New Warnings from FBI Whistleblower
>11. American Media Dodging U.N. Surveillance Story
>12. Canadian Military Brass Get PR Lessons
>13. The Green Side Of The Pentagon
>14. Airlines Go From Friendly Skies to A Flying Police State
>15. Korea Web Paper Strikes a Blow for Media Democracy
>16. Have A Coke And See Your Dentist
>17. Man Arrested for Wearing Peace T-shirt
>18. A Question of Coverage
>19. Luntz Memo Helps To Greenwash Republicans
>20. Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed
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>1. DISINFOMANIA!
>http://www.disinfopedia.org
> Yesterday the PR Watch staff launched a new website - an "open
> source" encyclopedia of propaganda that we have dubbed the
> "Disinfopedia." The Disinfopedia lets people like you contribute
> your knowledge about PR front groups and propaganda to a growing,
> ever-improving database that will serve as a resource for citizens
> and journalists. Users have already added 19 new articles to the
> Disinfopedia. We have also received a number of questions that we
> have tried to answer in the Disinfopedia's FAQ section, including:
>
> * What if someone tries to insert false information into the
> Disinfopedia itself?
> * How do I edit a page?
> * Who came up with that cool Disinfopedia logo? The
> Disinfopedia is a self-conscious experiment in alternative forms of
> information-gathering and publication. We hope you like what you
> see, and that you'll become one of our regular contributors!
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047446499
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047446499
>
>2. BILL KRISTOL IS GOING TO GET HIS WAR
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/arts/11WEEK.html?ex=1048439418&ei=1&en=b24ee1e4a387726d
> "Five years ago ... The Weekly Standard made the broad, seemingly
> preposterous assertion that America was entitled and even compelled
> to engineer regime change in Iraq. But under the current
> administration, driven by 9/11, that contention has become
> conventional wisdom. ... 'I am impressed by their success,' said
> Senator John McCain, whom The Weekly Standard supported for the
> presidency. ... In June 1997 [founding editor William Kristol]
> formed the Project for a New American Century, which issued papers
> supporting essentially unilateralist efforts to police the world.
> ... Signers at the time included many people who are now in a
> position of power, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense
> Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, along with ... Deputy Defense
> Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle ... . ... The Weekly
> Standard's willingness to domesticate and Americanize the globe, at
> gunpoint when necessary, gives a shiver of delight to most
> conservatives... . ... The man who runs News Corporation [which
> owns The Weekly Standard], Rupert Murdoch, has seen his Fox News
> morph from a running joke to a runaway success, and he is ...
> pleased to match its mass with the class - and growing cachet - of
> The Weekly Standard."
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 11, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047358802
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>3. US-FUNDED RADIO SAWA BIG HIT IN MIDDLE EAST
>http://www.freep.com/news/nw/propa11_20030311.htm
> Within six months of going on the air Radio Sawa -- Sawa is the
> Arabic word for "coming together" -- has more listeners than BBC
> and local stations in Jordan according to the Broadcasting Board of
> Governors (BBG), the U.S. government agency that oversees Radio
> Sawa and the Voice of America. The station broadcasts 24
> hours-a-day from seven transmitters throughout the Middle East and
> features a mix of Arabic and Western pop music with news headlines
> every half-hour. According to the Free Press, BBG Chairman Kenneth
> Tomlinson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week
> that Radio Sawa "may be the star of our efforts in the war on
> terrorism." He added that: "In an age when Arab boycotts of
> American products are widespread, a U.S. government-run radio
> station almost overnight has become the most popular voice of its
> kind in major portions of the Middle East, including Baghdad." But
> "the BBG rejects charges that Radio Sawa is a propaganda tool," the
> Free Press writes.
>SOURCE: Detroit Free Press, March 11, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047358801
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047358801
>
>4. NO MORE FRENCH FRIES FOR CONGRESS
>http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/
> News outlets are gleefully reporting the renaming of French Fries
> in Congressional cafeterias, now to be called "Freedom Fries."
> (Parents are no doubt telling their kids, "Behave and get those
> Freedom Fries out of your nose or we're leaving right now!") The TV
> media are running with this story as part of the cheerleading
> buildup for a US attack on Iraq. No word yet whether European
> governments will retaliate by renaming All-American Hot Dogs as
> "Dogs of War."
>SOURCE: CNN, March 11, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047358800
>
>5. SECRETIVE U.S. "INFORMATION" OFFICE BACK
>http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-propaganda-patrol,0,6619656.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
> "A Cold War-era office with a shadowy name and a colorful history
> of exposing Soviet deceptions is back in business, this time
> watching Iraq," reports Connie Cass. "The
> Counter-Disinformation/Misinformation Team's moniker is more
> impressive than its budget. It's a crew of two toiling in anonymity
> at the State Department, writing reports they are prohibited by law
> from disseminating to the U.S. public. The operation has challenged
> some fantastic claims over the years -- a U.S. military lab
> invented AIDS, rich Americans kidnapped foreign babies for their
> organs, the CIA plotted to kill Pope John Paul II. Since the office
> reopened in October, it's been responding to Iraqi claims about
> America, which tend to be more plausible and sometimes remain in
> dispute." The White House Office of Global Communication has
> produced a report, titled "Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's
> Disinformation and Propaganda."
>SOURCE: Associated Press, March 10, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047272400
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047272400
>
>6. PENTAGON READY FOR PRIMETIME
>http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-03-09-media-war-usat_x.htm
> U.S. Military public affairs officers at Central Command in Qatar
> are putting the finishing touches on their media center. USA Today
> reports that a $250,000 briefing stage has been shipped in from
> Chicago at a cost of $47,000. "Painted battleship-gray and backed
> by a 38-foot repeating world map, the set has five plasma screens,
> two rear screen projectors, two podiums and five digital clocks,
> including one giving Baghdad time. Behind the set is a
> state-of-the-art control room that requires at least three service
> members to operate," USA Today writes. "It's much cheaper than one
> bomb, and it can do a lot more. It is the face of the military,"
> George Allison, who designed the Defense Department set, told USA
> Today. The Pentagon is expecting 1000 journalists at its daily
> briefings in Qatar. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that
> "images of that war are likely to follow not long afterward at the
> local multiplex - all shot in the latest high-definition digital
> video. ... From the military point of view, the project 'is
> intended to maintain a strong connection with the American public
> ...' "
>SOURCE: USA Today, March 9, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047186001
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047186001
>
>7. SMART-MOBBING THE WAR
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09ANTIWAR.html?pagewanted=print
> Largely unnoticed by the press, "hacktivists" like Eli Pariser have
> used the Internet to create what George Packer calls "an
> instantaneous movement. ... During the past three months it has
> gathered the numbers that took three years to build during Vietnam.
> It may be the fastest-growing protest movement in American history.
> ... Internet democracy allows citizens to find one another
> directly, without phone trees or meetings of chapter organizations,
> and it amplifies their voices in the electronic storms or 'smart
> mobs' (masses summoned electronically) that it seems able to
> generate in a few hours. With cellphones and instant messaging, the
> time frame of protest might soon be the nanosecond."
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 9, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047186000
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047186000
>
>8. BAYER'S HEADACHE
>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20030307_1457.html
> A $100 million lawsuit against Bayer Corp. has yielded e-mails and
> internal documents that suggest the drug company let marketing and
> PR concerns trump safety, disregarding disturbing research on the
> cholesterol drug Baycol before it was pulled off the market because
> of dozens of deaths. "There have been some deaths related to
> Baycol. ... So much for keeping this quiet," said one E-mail.
> Another message wondered, "How will marketing spin this?" Other
> documents show that Bayer executives worried about studying
> possible side effects of the drug because any results would have to
> be reported to the FDA.
>SOURCE: Associated Press, March 7, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047013201
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047013201
>
>9. NEWS CONFERENCE "SCRIPTED," REPORTERS SILENCED
>http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20030307.html
> Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter and author of
> a regular Commondreams.org feature "Ari & I: White House
> Briefings," was at George W. Bush's first primetime news conference
> in over a year and a half. He says, "Last night's [press
> conference] might have been the most controlled Presidential news
> conference in recent memory. Even the President admitted during the
> press conference that 'this is a scripted' press conference. The
> President had a list of 17 reporters who he was going to call on.
> He didn't take any questions from reporters raising their hands.
> And he refused to call on Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House
> press corps, who traditionally asks the first question." According
> to White House communications director Dan Bartlett, the Bush
> administration rarely uses news conferences, because "if you have a
> message you're trying to deliver, a news conference can go in a
> different direction." However, "In this case, we know what the
> questions are going to be, and those are the ones we want to
> answer."
>SOURCE: Institute for Public Accuracy, March 7, 2003; Democracy Now! March
>7, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1047013200
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1047013200
>
>10. NEW WARNINGS FROM FBI WHISTLEBLOWER
>http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3738192.html
> Minneapolis FBI agent Colleen Rowley, who last year exposed the
> agency's mishandling of warning signs prior to September 11, has
> written a new letter to FBI director Robert Mueller, warning that
> "the diversion of attention from al-Qaeda to our government's plan
> to invade Iraq ... will, in all likelihood, bring an exponential
> increase in the terrorist threat to the U.S., both at home and
> abroad. ... It is altogether likely that you will find yourself a
> helpless bystander to a rash of 9-11s. The bottom line is this: We
> should be deluding neither ourselves nor the American people that
> there is any way the FBI ... will be able to stem the flood of
> terrorism that will likely head our way in the wake of an attack on
> Iraq." Rowley also alludes to "immense pressures you face as you
> try to keep the FBI intact and functioning amid persistent calls
> for drastic restructuring. You have made it clear that the FBI is
> perilously close to being divided up and is depending almost solely
> upon the good graces of Attorney General Ashcroft and President
> Bush for its continued existence." She hints broadly that recent
> FBI statements about al-Qaeda and its alleged link to Iraq are
> "largely the product of a desire to gain favor with the
> administration," and states that government detentions of more than
> 1,000 illegal alients following 9/11 were done "for what seem to be
> essentially PR purposes."
>SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 6, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1046926806
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926806
>
>11. AMERICAN MEDIA DODGING U.N. SURVEILLANCE STORY
>http://www.fair.org/media-beat/030306.html
> The London Observer on March 2 reported a leaked U.S. National
> Security Agency memorandum written by a top official calling for
> "aggressive surveillance" of UN Security Council delegations. The
> story received much media attention worldwide, but the US media has
> shown little interest in the story. Media Beat columnist Normon
> Solomon writes, "Several days after the 'embarrassing disclosure,'
> not a word about it had appeared in America's supposed paper of
> record. The New York Times -- the single most influential media
> outlet in the United States -- still had not printed anything about
> the story. How could that be? 'Well, it's not that we haven't been
> interested,' New York Times deputy foreign editor Alison Smale said
> on the evening of March 5, nearly 96 hours after the Observer broke
> the story. 'We could get no confirmation or comment' on the memo
> from U.S. officials."
>SOURCE: Media Best, March 6, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1046926805
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926805
>
>12. CANADIAN MILITARY BRASS GET PR LESSONS
>http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/story.asp?id=EC644982-9C50-426C-9668-635F7D7BF197
> "Canada's military has launched a major effort to help senior
> officers express empathy during tragedies, avoid nervousness, craft
> sound bites, avoid gaffes and 'deflect' questions," CanWest News
> Service's Peter O'Neil reports. A critic of the effort says that
> the federal government should focus on policy and performance
> rather than spin, suggesting that the military believes "that we're
> going to be the author of a lot of bad news over the next while, or
> associated with a lot of bad news and, therefore, we better figure
> out how to spin it."
>SOURCE: Ottawa Citizen, March 6, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926804
>
>13. THE GREEN SIDE OF THE PENTAGON
>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03062003_bt100-03.html
> In an effort to "preserve Iraq's oil for the Iraqi people," the
> Pentagon plans to prevent the destruction of Iraq's oil fields by
> "securing" them as quickly as possible. "In light of past acts of
> eco-terrorism by the regime of Saddam Hussein, the Department of
> Defense has developed plans to extinguish oil well fires and to
> assess damage to oil facilities that might occur in Iraq in the
> event of hostilities," a DoD release states. Reports exist,
> however, that U.S. troops and allies were responsible for the oil
> field fires and spills during the first Gulf War. The New
> Internationalist reported in October 1992, "When, on 24 January
> 1991, Baghdad Radio announced that the US-led forces had bombed two
> oil tankers in Kuwait harbour, releasing large quantities of oil,
> the US military was quick to dismiss these claims as entirely
> false. Two days later they announced that Iraqi forces had opened
> the valves on several pipelines, allowing oil to spill directly
> into the Gulf. Cries of outrage and accusations of 'environmental
> terrorism' filled the press. Pictures of oil-soaked, panic-stricken
> cormorants splashed across the front page of every newspaper.
> Several days afterwards - in a minor briefing note - the US
> admitted that the slick caused by the Iraqis had not yet hit land.
> The dying birds were in fact being killed by the slick from earlier
> attacks on installations - including the US bombing of the
> tankers."
>SOURCE: Department of Defense, March 6, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1046926803
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926803
>
>14. AIRLINES GO FROM FRIENDLY SKIES TO A FLYING POLICE STATE
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/business/06FLY.html?ex=1047998130&ei=1&en=6f4589920d7a6a7c
> "The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply
> objecting to government plans for a new airline passenger screening
> program .... . The proposed program ... would involve electronic
> checking of the credit records and criminal histories, along with
> checking whether the passenger is on watch lists of suspected
> terrorists. The screening would be done by the federal
> Transportation Security Administration. ... Based on the results,
> each traveler would be assigned a risk level. Those deemed to pose
> a danger would be barred from flights. The critics worry how the
> information about other passengers - whose risk rating will appear
> in encrypted form on boarding passes - will be used and protected
> from abuse. ... The program has so angered some passengers that a
> movement is brewing on the Internet for a boycott of Delta if it
> carries out the test of the system, known as CAPPS II, for Computer
> Assisted Passenger Prescreening System."
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 6, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1046926802
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926802
>
>15. KOREA WEB PAPER STRIKES A BLOW FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/international/asia/06SEOU.html?ex=1047998393&ei=1&en=ab381a219b4f0db9
> "For years, people will be debating what made [South Korea] go from
> conservative to liberal, from gerontocracy to youth culture and
> from staunchly pro-American to a deeply ambivalent ally - all
> seemingly overnight. ... But for many observers, the most important
> agent of change has been the Internet. ... In the last year, as the
> elections were approaching, more and more people were getting their
> information and political analysis from spunky news services on the
> Internet instead of from the country's overwhelmingly conservative
> newspapers. Most influential by far has been a feisty
> three-year-old startup with the unusual name of OhmyNews. ... 'The
> professional news culture has eroded our journalism,' [founder Oh
> Yeon Ho] said, 'and I have always wanted to revitalize it. Since I
> had no money, I decided to use the Internet, which has made this
> guerrilla strategy possible. ... Pat Robertson and I are very
> different in temperament and ideology, but we are very similar in
> strategy,' said Mr. Oh ... . 'They are very right-wing and wanted
> to overthrow what they saw as a liberal media establishment. I
> wanted to overthrow a right-wing media establishment, and I learned
> a lot from them.' "
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 6, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926801
>
>16. HAVE A COKE AND SEE YOUR DENTIST
>http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=5770
> The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's has a new partnership
> with soft-drink giant Coca-Cola. The $1-million deal involves a
> research grant to the academy to "support important clinical, basic
> and behavioral research" and "create public and professional
> educational programs, based on science, that promote improved
> dental health for children." The AAPD told Reuters that Coca-Cola
> "will have no say-so" into the specifics of that research. The
> non-profit group Center for Science in the Public Interest,
> however, has criticized AAPD's partnership with the world's largest
> soft drink manufacture. "Regardless of what the money is used for,"
> CSPI writes, "the grant will make the AAPD a captive of Coca-Cola,
> making it extremely unlikely that the AAPD will take positions
> antagonistic to the company, like opposing soft-drink machines in
> schools, or supporting labeling of the added-sugar content of
> foods."
>SOURCE: CorpWatch, March 6, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2003.html#1046926800
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046926800
>
>17. MAN ARRESTED FOR WEARING PEACE T-SHIRT
>http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/sns-ap-mall-activists0305mar05,0,5750151.story?coll=ny-statenews-headlines
> A man was arrested and charged with trespassing in a mall in
> Albany, New York after he refused to take off a T-shirt that said
> "Peace on Earth" and "Give peace a chance."
>SOURCE: Newsday, March 5, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046840400
>
>18. A QUESTION OF COVERAGE
>http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7350
> More than two dozen journalism school deans and professors,
> independent editors, journalists and authors have sent an open
> letter to major media editors, criticizing media coverage of Iraq
> and warning that "this is no time for relying solely on official
> sources and their supporters." Signers of the letter include:
> retired New York Times columnist Tom Wicker; former New York Times
> reporter William Serrin; Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the Graduate
> School of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley;
> author Studs Terkel; independent journalist and filmmaker Barbara
> Koeppell; and author Ralph Nader.
>SOURCE: TomPaine.com, March 3, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046667601
>
>19. LUNTZ MEMO HELPS TO GREENWASH REPUBLICANS
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/politics/02ENVI.html?ex=1047881012&ei=1&en=711d229fc74ee095
> "Over the last six months, the Republican Party has subtly
> refocused its message on the environment, an issue that a party
> strategist [Frank Luntz] called 'the single biggest vulnerability
> for the Republicans and especially for George Bush' in a memorandum
> encouraging the new approach. The Republicans, as the memorandum
> advised them, have softened their language to appeal to suburban
> voters, speaking out for protecting national parks and forests,
> advocating investment in environment technologies and shifting
> emphasis to the future rather than the present. ... National
> environmental groups say the shift has blunted the edge of
> Republican attacks. 'They are not playing defense anymore,' said
> Kim Haddow, a consultant for the Sierra Club who has helped counter
> some Republican advertisements. 'It's like a tennis game. The ball
> is back in our court, and we need to spend time and energy
> educating voters.' "
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 2, 2003
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046581203
>
>20. STAR WITNESS ON IRAQ SAID WEAPONS WERE DESTROYED
>http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kamel.html
> "On February 24, Newsweek broke what may be the biggest story of
> the Iraq crisis," FAIR writes. "In a revelation that 'raises
> questions about whether the WMD [weapons of mass destruction]
> stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist,' the magazine's issue
> dated March 3 reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected
> from the regime in 1995 told U.N. inspectors that Iraq had
> destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons
> and banned missiles, as Iraq claims." The CIA denied the Newsweek
> story. FAIR reports a copy of the complete transcript of Gen.
> Hussein Kamel's debriefing by International Atomic Energy Agency
> (IAEA) and the U.N. inspections team known as UNSCOM was obtained
> by Glen Rangwala, "the Cambridge University analyst who in early
> February revealed that Tony Blair's 'intelligence dossier' was
> plagiarized from a student thesis."
>SOURCE: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, February 27, 2003
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/February_2003.html#1046322001
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1046322001
>
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