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Jason Linkins and Ben Craw: WikiLeaks Media Reaction: A Frenzy Of Frantic Yawning Over Nine-Year Long War

While this week's document dump from WikiLeaks on the war in Afghanistan may objectively contain no blockbuster -- game-changing disclosures in the form of any single document, it still manages to create something extraordinary: an extended period of time in which the media rushed to the cameras to insist that the big story is that there is no big story at all.

 

SEC Accuses Billionaire Investor Brothers Of $550 MILLION Worth Of Insider Trading, Fraud

Wyly Billionaires Memoir

Obama Administration Pushing To Expand U.S. Arms Exports By Gutting Approval Process

Obama Arms Exports

Politics: How Tea Party Candidate Sharron Angle Lost An 11-Point Lead In 7 Weeks

Sharron Angle Nevada Senate Campaign

Congress Fails To Pass Aid Package For Sick 9/11 Responders

911 Responder Aid

Bloomberg Calls Vote An 'Outrage'

Palin Takes A Shot At Obama Over 'View' Appearance

Palin Obama View

Scientists Find Evidence That Oil-Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain

Crab Larvae

World: Second U.S. Sailor's Body Recovered In Afghanistan

Jarod Newlove

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Google, CIA Investing In Internet- Monitoring Company That Claims To Predict The Future

Recorded Future

Shirley Sherrod: 'I Will Not Give Fox An Interview, Period'

Shirley Sherrod Fox

Armenian-Americans Sue Turkish Government, Banks For Century-Old Mass Killings, Asset Seizures

Armenians Sue Turkey

Obama Makes Historic Appearance On 'The View,' Talks Sherrod Firing, Afghanistan, Lindsay Lohan

Obama The View

Texas Man Gets Death Sentence For Beheading 3 Young Children

John Allen Rubio

Erin Burnett: 'Everyone's Talking About' How We Should Extend Bush Tax Cuts To Wealthiest Americans

Erin Burnett

JASON LINKINS Iowa GOP Embraces Plan To Strip Obama's Citizenship For Accepting Nobel Prize

Aptopix Norway Nobel

Shirley Sherrod To Sue Andrew Breitbart

Shirley Sherrod

First Amendment Lawyers Weigh In On Her Chances Of Winning

New X Prize Challenges Innovators To Take On Oil Spill Cleanup

X Prize Oil Cleanup Challenge

HuffPost Innovators Tackle The Spill

Police Make $1.7 BILLION Pot Bust In California

Billion Dollar Pot Bust

TIME Mag Warns Of Tragedy For Afghan Women If U.S. Withdraws ..

Time Afghanistan Women

.. But They're Already Suffering

Gulf Coast Restoration Group Has Oil Industry Ties

Oil Spill

Sandra Bullock Withdraws Support From Group

Religion: Tea Party Libertarianism And Christian Ethics

Tea Party Christianity

More ReligionOliver Stone And The Holocaust .. Muslim Americans And Religious Profiling

WATCH: The Media's Frenzy Of Frantic Yawning Over The Afghanistan Leaks

Nothing New

Oil Spill Approaches Lake Michigan

Michigan Oil Spill

BROKEN SYSTEM: GOP Filibusters Small Business Bill After Criticizing Democrats For Delay

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Ellen DeGeneres OFF 'American Idol'

Ellen Degeneres Fired Idol

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The National Performs As SPIN Magazine Celebrates 25 Years

Spin Magazine

WATCH: Christina Hendricks Renders Anchor Unable To Speak

Christina Hendricks

Entertainment: 'Roseanne' Star Sara Gilbert Talks About Her Sexuality

Sara Gilbert The Talk

College: PHOTOS: Did You Know? Famous College Roommates

Christopher Reeve Robin Williams

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WATCH: Barefoot Bandit Escape Attempt Caught On Tape

Barefoot Forever

'Long Island Lolita' Amy Fisher Inks Porn Deal

Amy Fisher Porn

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Picnic Bear

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Books: Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being A Christian'

Anne Rice

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Sports: A-Rod Scrambles To Save Nearly $25 Million

Alex Rodriguez Texas Rangers

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Living: Vote For The Most Inspiring 'Breakthrough' Story

Tony Robbins Breakthrough

Entertainment: WATCH: Obama Gets Flustered By Mel & Snooki Questions

Obama Laugh

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Food: How To Grill Great Steakhouse-Quality Steaks

How To Grill Steakhouse Steaks

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Ship Lost For More Than 150 YEARS Recovered

Investigator

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Nail Polish

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'Private' Browsing Not So Private

Private Browsing

Travel: PHOTOS: The 12 Most Overcrowded Beaches In The World

Mami

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Style: WATCH: Obama Not Invited To Attend Chelsea Clinton's Wedding

Obama View

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