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Would you recommend the book? Does it cite verifiable sources?
Frankly, it's not hard to contain more information than you get from the news channels. The reason most adults under 40 get their primary news leads from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report is that they have more fact in four hours of satire a week than Fox, MSNBC and CNN cover in 168 hrs/week... in fact, the only other reliable source I've found on tv is Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. For unreliability, Fox has crossed the line with this whole "Foley is a Democrat and the Congressional Democrats not the Republicans were hiding his pedophilia; vote for the Republican candidate in Florida and don't pay attention to the fact that his name is Foley!" thing (I won't go into this in the forums without at least moving it into the politics section, so if you don't know about this, either PM me or ask in the Politics forum). I could understand one accidental use of "D-FL" in a caption, but they've really gone overboard on it, proving it was no accident at all but a blatant lie. But I guess that's really just an extension of the lack of journalistic integrity mandated by corporate infotainment.
On the same subject, has anyone read State of Denial or Clark's book whose title I can't remember at the moment? What did you think of them?
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