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To: c.hinton who wrote (236036)	7/12/2007 9:32:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine ...what do you expect.....a growing section of the american public feel lied to and betrayed.......dont blame the press or the editorial.... they often only reflect popular opinion. And who forms popular opinion? At least with the emergence of the Net and other 'new media' sources, the NYT doesn't have the stranglehold it used to have, but if you think that popular opinion isn't shaped and formed by the stories that the NYT chooses to run page A1 above the fold 30 days in a row - and even more shaped by the absence of what the NYT doesn't consider 'fit to print' - then you are exceedingly credulous. The NYT is an opinion maker. Nightly news programs all over the country follow its lead for their stories. It is especially significant when the examples you cite as "shaping" public opinion are not actually true, they have simply been repeated into existence through a big lie technique, originally from those wishing to shift blame off themselves, but repeated ad nauseum by the NYT and others.