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To: NYer
"some viewers may consider...", "critics say...", "some people have said..."

All words used to allow the injection of their own opinion into the news. Nothing new.

5 posted on 10/08/2006 6:00:16 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus
All words used to allow the injection of their own opinion into the news. Nothing new.

Exactly! And "unnamed sources" too.

31 posted on 10/08/2006 7:14:27 AM PDT by libertylover (If it's good and decent, you can be sure the Democrat Party leaders are against it.)
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To: rhombus

Couric often uses this devise. Invariably "Some people" includes herself.


39 posted on 10/08/2006 8:29:17 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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