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Article: Widows and Orphans First ...(media coverage of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows )
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 12, 2004
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The beast will not die. In a March 21 profile of Lizz Winstead of Air America Radio, for instance, the Washington Post's conservative media critic, Howard "Conflict of Interest" Kurtz, writes, "Why would people listen to Winstead and company when liberals already populate much of the media?" This nonsense allows conservatives to continue to deploy the phantom charge of a "librul media" to conduct guerrilla operations with a cooperative media against targets on the left.
A textbook example of the dishonest tactics employed by the right-wing smear machine can be found in the recent campaign against September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a 122-member ...