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	<title><![CDATA[How Mainstream Media Echoed a Fabricated Story]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/omid-memarian/how-mainstream-media-echo_b_83343.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>"Do you think that Iranian speedboats will threaten US warships in the Persian Gulf <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3147217.ece">again</a>?" asked my friend Jacob. Like most people, he followed the infamous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNL6DyH_IfA">January 6th incident</a> for just a few days before moving on. But he was left with the potent image in his mind that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_A8PFcwtsk&amp;feature=related">Iran's aggressive behavior</a> towards American vessels could have ended in <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22610649/ ">bloody confrontation</a>. </p>

<p>This is not precisely what happened on January 6th between the US and Iran...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
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