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  • "...two assumptions that are commonplace... The second is that the press is too close to its subjects—in the parlance of journalists, 'in the tank.'"

    --Evan Thomas, "The Myth of Objectivity," Newsweek, March 10, 2008, p. 38

    March 12, 2008

  • I hope I don't got a loose cannon while I'm in here.

    September 23, 2008