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Media Matters for America says there are reports Abu Faraj Farj al-Libbi is not the high-ranking al Qaeda kingpin that everyone is making him out to be. An excerpt: The Libyan-born al-Libbi was Pakistan's most wanted man for his involvement in two plots to kill Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, according to numerous news reports. Following [...]
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Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, was speaking at a media conference earlier this week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Here is some of his speech as transcribed by Democracy Now! … We have got to make corporate control over the media a political issue in the same way that health care [...]
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The Salon blurb: Republicans have launched a heavy-handed campaign to correct public broadcasting's “liberal slant.” There's just one problem: Most Americans don't think it has one. An excerpt: (free access with a day pass) In the early 1970s a civil war erupted inside the fledgling world of public television. Upset with what they saw as [...]
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