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It lifts one’s spirits to see that a concerted campaign to awaken some sense of shame among editors in those corporate media whorehouses can have an effect, as it did at the Miami Herald and the Philadelphia Inquirer this month, but no one should be fooled by such isolated successes. For the most part, we are being lied to and “protected” from the truth in so many ways that no media campaign, however robust, short perhaps of a mass boycott, could force these compromised companies to let the truth out.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based investigative journalist and columnist. His latest book, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and now in paperback). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

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