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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:37 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Stupid drug story of the week: NBC's Today show discovers huffing.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In the annals of stupid drug reporting, a special commendation must be reserved for NBC's Today show, which on Nov. 19 aired (video) one of the stupidest drug stories in broadcast news. The program, which specializes in terrorizing mothers with sensationalist stories, discovered that today's kids are "huffing" inhalants from hair spray and air duster cans.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236302/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jack Shafer</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:37 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What's behind Rupert Murdoch's trash-talking of Google?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Rupert Murdoch knows two modes: doing things and talking about doing things.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235055/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jack Shafer</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:49:15 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Unsolicited advice for Jim Brady upon starting a D.C. news site for the owner of Politico.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Who doesn't adore Jim Brady, the former executive editor of the Washingtonpost.com? Even I like him, and I don't like anybody. He's proved himself as a reporter, a manager, and an executive, and unlike most people in the business, he's not especially full of himself. And if I'm wrong and Brady really is full of himself, he doesn't let on.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233836/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jack Shafer</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:56:57 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The Obama-Fox press war can't hold a flame to the one FDR waged in the 1930s.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233605/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=7099" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=7099" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jack Shafer</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:35:43 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Cynical reporters have a soft spot for anybody who claims victimhood.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Reporters fancy themselves wicked cynics who automatically assume the worst of people until proved otherwise. But there's a soft spot in the medulla oblongata of even the most hard-boiled reporter where if you tickle it just so, he'll fall into a trance and become your spaniel.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233307/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jack Shafer</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:18:39 EST</pubDate>
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