"As Gardiner further analyzed the coverage in the early days of the invasion, he saw what he believed was a pattern of misinformation being fed to the press."

Or maybe an older story - John R. MacArthur's The Lies We Bought - also in CJR back in the days when the New York Times became "gray lady down" (May/June 2003):

Source:  Learning Counterinsurgency:  Observations from Soldiering in Iraq  [.pdf], Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, MILITARY REVIEW, January-February 2006.  Submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee at his confirmation hearing on 23 January 2007.

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"Steve Spendlove realizes that after last month's layoffs of most of the news-gathering staff at tiny KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa there will be less local coverage. The Clear Channel executive overseeing the station knows there won't be reporters to investigate local scandals, let alone do those fluffy woman-turns-100 features that make TV anchors cock their heads and smile at the end of a newscast."  [Via Romensko]
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"Gonzales and his aides say that they intend to seek Senate approval for every new U.S. attorney and that the old system, which allowed federal judges to appoint replacements, has both practical and constitutional problems. Justice Department officials also defend Gonzales's right to fire U.S. attorneys at will and have suggested that each of the recently dismissed prosecutors had performance problems."
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[thanks to GreyHawk for the link]

Well, maybe a communications device. Then again - like DT used to say - communication between two people is one of the hardest things to do.

Helps to speak the same language, and always put it in writing.

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Peter Gosselin/LAT:  Insurers Saw Record Gains in Year of Catastrophic Loss (5 Apr '06).   "The companies that provide Americans with their homeowners and auto insurance made a record $44.8-billion profit last year even after accounting for the claims of policyholders wiped out by Hurricane Katrina and the other big storms of 2005 . ."
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