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The Reason
Title: The Reason
Category: History
Details: Words: 827 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Reason
In the 26-day interstice between the bombings in New York and Washington and the U.S. military's latest foray in the Middle East, a remarkable and unprecedented redirection of media rhetoric occurred. A shift from stories and information of dubious importance to all-war-all-the-time programming overtook radio talk-show hosts and parts of the print-news biz.
While it's hard to say whether this represents any kind of improvement in the general state of things--the jingoism and …showed first 75 words of 827 total…
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It's still right-wing radio, of course, so let's not give it too much credit for doing what it should be doing during a time of national crisis: informing the public and listening as it speaks. Yet, we should be thankful--and not in a gloating way--that even cranky, self-consciously "provocative" radio jocks know enough about what makes a story that they can put their parochial dramas aside until the storm passes.
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