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Being at Bill's side can seem like standing next to a nuclear blast. Hillary appeared to vanish as he set the audience on fire at Coretta Scott King's funeral in February. When Hillary's moment came, aides noticed something familiar about her ponderous tribute: she was lifting the best line of her husband's 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. She memorialized Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow as having risen from her grief after his assassination to tell the civil rights movement, "Send me." It was a leaden version of the "send me" riff with which Bill...
...films (Layer Cake's nice-guy coke dealer, Ted Hughes in Sylvia)? Or should he accept and become forever the man who was Bond? He turned to Pierce Brosnan, four-time veteran of Her Majesty's Secret Service, for advice. "Go for it," Brosnan told him. "It's a blast...
...when the surprise attack of planes struck the edifice, Don Ross didn't think about the future. He ran to his station, where he and his men worked to keep the electricity on in the giant structure. Then a blast of white-hot smoke whipped through a ventilation shaft and hit Ross full in the face, blinding him. He ordered everyone else out as, for 15 minutes, he struggled to keep the power running. When he had nearly finished the job, he collapsed. He was dragged from his station, but when he heard that smoke was filling another room...
When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph of smoke rising over Beirut, side by side with the unaltered version of the same scene, the first thing I thought was: which is supposed to be the scary one? If I saw either cloud of smoke rising from a bomb blast in my own city, I wouldn't be worried much about where it fell on the Pantone color wheel. (More-elaborate comparisons of the two altered photos, which led Reuters to pull over 900 pictures by photographer Adnan Hajj, have been springing up on YouTube; best to search on "Reuters," perhaps...
...every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact - even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast or the number of flares fired from a plane - it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well. All facts become suspect, all information becomes relative, and you might as well believe whatever your gut tells you, because the news is invariably driven by its own bias, which is, invariably, against you. We become a nation of Stephen Colberts, believing that facts are sketchy and overrated and should never be allowed...