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On the Monday before the Independence Day weekend, several mainstream media outlets repeated the latest press release by the FBI that the country was under a new “heightened terror alert” from “ISIL-inspired attacks” “leading up to the July 4 weekend.” Former CIA director (and consultant at DC PR firm Beacon Global Strategies) Michael Morell went […]
CBS’s discussion would have been more satisfying if someone had acknowledged the reality that it would be foolish for Iran to accept unlimited inspections at any location on its territory, because the United States has in the past used inspections as a cover for espionage that facilitated military attacks.
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Two recent FAIR studies highlighted the lack of diversity at National Public Radio—both in the boardrooms that have authority over its member stations and in the perspectives that are aired on its most prominent news shows.
