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Others weren't so easily co-opted. On the Internet, a volunteer army of bloggers escalated their guerrilla war against the mainstream media. They had previously spooked the (now former) executive editor of theNew York Times Howell Raines and even the (just as former) Senate majority leader Trent Lott, but when they helped push Dan Rather into early retirement, their real moment seemed to have come. Nevertheless, they stay on the margins--because, like all insurgents, they're about sniping, not governing...
...Marginally more professional was ?Fahrenhype 9/11,? narrated by ex-Leftie haranguer Ron Silver and co-written by tabloid scandal-magnet Dick Morris. This flabby, flailing enterprise pokes some of the same holes in ?Fahrenheit? that mainstream journalists had already spotted - and here I must join Moore in wishing aloud that these journalists had been half as resourceful in challenging the WMD claims of Bush-Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld - while padding the rest out with malice, fat jokes and campaign speeches for the Republican ticket...
...reflexively and almost unanimously left-wing. (To my knowledge, there is simply no right-wing political documentary, unless you count ?Triumph of the Will,? Leni Riefenstahl?s hypnotic record of the Sixth Nazi Congress.) Moore had given the film industry?s poor, scrappy cousins a shot at the movie mainstream...
...outsider even in his own, high-achieving family (the black sheep, he once told the Queen of England). Forty-one newspapers that endorsed Bush back when he ran as a pragmatic reformer revoked their support this time around. But that just made it easier; he was running against the mainstream media, and his campaign was feeding the bloggers and surfing talk radio. "You wouldn't have known that we were the out party," says Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, "because we defended the status quo on some stuff. Bush was able to sound like...
Combs survived a hard childhood in Mount Vernon, N.Y.; a senseless bicoastal rap war in the 1990s that probably cost the life of his best friend, top Bad Boy performer Christopher (Biggie Smalls) Wallace; and a 2001 gun-possession trial, which ended in acquittal, before acquiring his mainstream profits. And he's not finished. Bolstered by a $100 million investment from Los Angeles supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, Combs signed a licensing deal with Estée Lauder to launch a men's fragrance next fall. This summer he opened a Sean John retail store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. More stores...