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Republican committee chairman calls President Bush's State of the Union promise 'bullshit'* (CNN)

Actually, the real story here is how CNN takes an inflammatory comment and makes it the whole story, when the people involved in this issue don't disagree very much on the right course of action. But this is constantly happening; the headline says one thing, and then you actually read the story and it says something quite different. I also think it might be the first time 'disses' is used in a CNN headline for a 'news' story.

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Where the truth lies: The thin line between truth and fiction (CNN)

At first I thought maybe this story was about how the 'news' isn't really the news, how it's spun in the interests of corporate power, how it self-censors and omits anything remotely controversial... but really, a news article talking about how the news is fake? Ridiculous. Spank me!

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Oh, forgot to mention that I had a dream where I was Hunter Thompson and I was being held in a prison camp by aliens who had cleverly disguised themselves as German soldiers and I was trying to type out a fake gate pass but I kept making mistakes and the paper wouldn't stay straight and the carriage kept scraping the ground and people kept looking over my shoulder. So that was kind of disconcerting.