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9. I sorta kinda hoped that 12 or 13 years ago

Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:30 PM

Jan 2017

It seemed that the field was ripe for a few dedicated journalists to reap a harvest of Pulitzers and other prizes. Instead, the major outlets turtled again and let the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth run unfettered across the media landscape to question Sen. Kerry's military career. Not a peep out of any of them about how the U.S. was lied into a war with Iraq, or the torture regimes instituted by the land of the free and home of the brave.

Will they do any better this time? Magic 8 Ball says "Reply Hazy Ask Again Later."

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