Yes, Sarah, There is a Media Conspiracy

True/Slant by Matt Taibbi | Nov. 23, 2009 (Opinion)

(Blog Post) Is the media out to get Sarah Palin? It seems like most of the letters I get are insisting that I admit it. “Surely you can’t deny,” writes one woman from Florida, “that no political figure in American history has had to put up with what Sarah Palin has had to put up with from the mainstream media.”

Now, this is the part of this red-blue schtick where I’m supposed to strike back without thinking and re-hash the history of, say, the ... Full Story »

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Posted by: via Jay Rosen - Nov 23, 2009 - 1:05 PM PST
Reviewed by: Fabrice Florin (review), Doug Greer (review), Randy Morrow (review), Glenn LaBauve (review), Fred Gatlin (review)
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 by Fred Gatlin - Nov. 24, 2009

Despite the language this article is fairly good story.

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Fabrice posted this story.
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 by Doug Greer - Nov. 23, 2009

Taibbi's observations about the media are strong in both language and insight.

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