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On the Contrary

  1. November 26, 2007 01:00 PM

    The War Expert

    Wrong, wrong, wrong again. But the media still want Ken Pollack

    By Michael Massing

    On July 30, as the debate over the Bush administration’s “surge” in Iraq was heating up, The New York Times ran an op-ed article that enthusiastically endorsed it. Titled A WAR WE MIGHT JUST WIN, it was written by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, both of the Brookings Institution, and, reading through it, I grew increasingly irritated. Part of...

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  2. July 10, 2007 10:45 AM

    Memorial Day Mush

    It’s time for the networks to get real about the war

    By Michael Massing

    As is their custom, the national TV news programs spent the Memorial Day weekend offering tributes to U.S. soldiers and their families. CNN introduced us to Marine Lieutenant Andrew Kinard, “an officer in the true tradition of the Marines,” who, despite having lost all of his left leg and most of his right one, had not lost his sense of...

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  3. March 01, 2007 08:30 AM

    Missing Middle

    That gaping hole in our national news report is called the Midwest.

    By Michael Massing

    In early January, more than 6,000 journalists from around the world descended on Detroit’s Cobo Center for the annual Detroit auto show. For three days, they attended parties and briefings, interviewed executives and engineers, and participated in the annual ritual of picking their own personal winners and losers from among the fifty or so new car models on display....

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