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To: Skywatcher who wrote (16848)	5/12/2005 3:19:02 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362745

OK, I'll look for it (I live in SoCal - but I hadn't read the LATimes yet). I was hoping it was on the front page, but it is probably buried.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (16848)	5/12/2005 3:58:59 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362745

Media Advisory: Smoking Gun Memo? Iraq Bombshell Goes Mostly Unreported in US Media commondreams.org <<...Salon columnist Joe Conason posed this question about the story: <<..."Are Americans so jaded about the deceptions perpetrated by our own government to lead us into war in Iraq that we are no longer interested in fresh and damning evidence of those lies? Or are the editors and producers who oversee the American news industry simply too timid to report that proof on the evening broadcasts and front pages?" As far as the media are concerned, the answer to Conason's second question would seem to be yes. A May 8 New York Times news article asserted that "critics who accused the Bush administration of improperly using political influence to shape intelligence assessments have, for the most part, failed to make the charge stick." It's hard for charges to stick when major media are determined to ignore the evidence behind them...>>