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winning the war  They report. We deride.  We deride Fox News
Channel for saying "us" and "our" in talking about the American
war effort, a strategy that conjures images of gung-ho anchor
Shepard Smith, like Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," riding a
Tomahawk straight into Baghdad.  We deride Fox for playing
ratings politics with the news, turning Joint Chiefs Chairman
Richard Myers' public call Tuesday for media to be "fair and
balanced" into a back-door endorsement, pointing out frequently
afterward that the general had echoed a Fox News marketing
slogan.  And we deride the channel for the infamous and canny
"we report; you decide" slogan, because, I learned all over
again after watching five straight hours of Fox News earlier
this week, there isn't, comparatively speaking, that much
reporting, and because the channel's very point seems to be to
reaffirm the opinions of people who have long since decided.
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