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	<title><![CDATA['Message Force Multiplier' Scandal: Networks Assailed For 'Deafening Silence']]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/08/message-force-multiplier_n_100863.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10204.html">Michael Calderone and Avi Zenilman run down the ongoing effort</a> to get <a href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200805070004">network and cable news outlets</a> to come clean on their use of "message force multipliers" - government employees who presented themselves as "retired" military analysts who have been dedicated and dutiful pimps of the White House diktat on the Iraq War. </p>

<p>In the face of what these <i>Politico</i> reporters capture as a "deafening silence," Democratic Reps Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and John Dingell (D-MI) have been joined...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-16T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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