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		<title>Politicians Sometimes Lie. Should Reporters Say So?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK&#8212;It&#8217;s probably a truism that every candidate, in every campaign, will eventually stretch the truth. But when a lie becomes too big, or too brazen, the news media temporarily moves beyond strict reporting and decides to call a foul. At least that&#8217;s what happened over the past week in the American presidential race, when John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/09/21/politicians-sometimes-lie-should-reporters-say-so/</link>
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		<title>255 Days Later&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the Globe and Mail announced that it was freeing its columnists from the tyranny of the online subscriber wall. Get out of the harbour, Jeffrey Simpson; it&#8217;s time to go out where the big ships float, Margaret Wente. By abandoning its Insider subscription program—or &#8220;retiring,&#8221; if you care to share Edward Greenspon&#8217;s euphemism—the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/01/255-days-later/</link>
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		<title>I Only Care About Politics When They&#8217;re Not Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK&#8212;One of the best arguments for living in this city is the ability to hear, firsthand, American public intellectuals debate their country&#8217;s politics. NEW YORK&#8212;One of the best arguments for living in this city is the ability to hear, firsthand, American public intellectuals debate their country&#8217;s politics. At least, it used to be. Apparently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/27/i-only-care-about-politics-when-theyre-somebody-elses/</link>
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		<title>The News Is Someplace Else</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK&#8212;Symbolic protest being just as good as any other kind, I have refrained from blogging these past weeks not out of laziness, but as an act of quiet resistance NEW YORK&#8212;Symbolic protest being just as good as any other kind, I have refrained from blogging these past weeks not out of laziness, but as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/25/in-this-race-the-news-is-someplace-else/</link>
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		<title>Shameless Self-Promotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Columbia University by Students for a Democratic Society, a group that makes today&#8217;s wildest student activists look like doe-eyed puppies. Whether you think the decline of confrontational politics is a mark of a) growing civility or b) growing apathy, the occasion deserves mention, especially as [...]]]></description>
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