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| | PressThink: The Downing Street Memo and the Court of Appeal in News Judgment |
 | | About the Downing Street Memo —which I think deserves sustained news attention, real Congressional hearings, questions and answers at White House briefings, continued blogging, serious examination by all Americans (including the President’s supporters) and the interest of future historians, essentially for the reasons articulated here —I have one thought to contribute. |
 | | The Downing Street documents, on the other hand, were allegedly authored by, and relate to meetings recently conducted by, a group of men who are very much alive and well. |
 | | As pieces of content with tremendous symbolic value, the Downing Street memos join the Abu Ghraib photos, the CBS memos, the Watergate tapes, and the pumpkin papers as shuttlecocks in the badminton game that ritually occurs whenever one side in a partisan disputation seeks an edge by attempting to scandalize the debate. |
| journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/06/19/dwn_mmo.html (14314 words) |
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