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Last Sunday, The New York Times published a 4,200-word front-page story about the Bush Administration's efforts to manage wartime news and propaganda. The writer, Elizabeth Becker, reported that top U.S. officials, working in concert with the British government, are mounting "what may be the most ambitious wartime communications effort since World War II." This "highly orchestrated" endeavor is, the paper said, "a first, step in a broader campaign to create a 21st-century version of the muscular propaganda war that the United States waged in the 1940s."
The story was packed with fresh information, but there was one sentence near the top that wasn't exactly news: ...