Geov Parrish's 2003 Media Follies!

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Annual survey of the year's most overhyped and underreported stories. You'll find some familiar stuff here, paricularly in the year's most important underreported stories.

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The Bush tax cuts have flopped. The flip side of the “recovery” stories. This has also been on the list the last two years. But it’s worth a return engagement because most of the administration’s economic claims -- and assumptions for future planning -- are grossly fictional. Never has an administration been so greedy for its own economic interests, or lied so much about it. We’ll be stuck with the bill for decades.

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Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton. Neither man has a chance for the Democratic nomination. Yet both Kucinich and Sharpton have generated fiercely loyal followings as the only two candidates in a crowded field with the clarity and guts to challenge fundamental assumptions of the Bush domestic and foreign policy agendas. Howard Dean’s successful candidacy wouldn’t be possible without this pair on his flank, making him look “more reasonable” even as corporate media ignores or ridicules their campaigns.

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The U.S. remains the biggest terrorist nation in the world. We're the largest arms exporter. We’re funding the next generation of Saddams in places like Pakistan and Uzbekistan, we give Israel money and diplomatic cover, we ignore international treaties and laws whenever we like. For years, it was all done with an implied threat: our military will crush any regime that strays too far out of line. With Iraq, the threat is no longer implied; it’s right out there for all to see.

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