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The New York Times is falling down and bruising America again. 

Dear NYT,

Your article is an insult to America. President Bush isn’t oversimplifying- He’s lying. From your article:

President Bush on Thursday employed a stark and ominous defense. “The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq,” he said, “were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that’s why what happens in Iraq matters to the security here at home.”

This is not only an oversimplification of the situation, it is also patently untrue. And the possibility that the Bush Administration doesn’t know this is absolutely remote, don’t you think? So they are lying, what else could it mean? This is academic and beyond dispute at this point. Why won’t you level with New Yorkers and all of America? With Disgust,Mark Schultz
United States Citizen

here’s the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/world/middleeast/13qaeda.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Dear CNN,

When will so-called news stories about Paris Hilton go where they belong– on the OFFBEAT section of cnn.com?

When will you start reporting real news again? When will you begin investigating matters important to the world’s citizens again?

When?

 Oh where, oh where can it be?

Dear CNN,

CNN continues to dissapoint me with its coverage of tripe instead of real news. Case in point:

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive

Don’t you think a directive that redirects control of the United States to the executive branch during a catastrophic event is newsworthy?

See:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

Instead I get a Donald Trump melodrama on the home page. Heck, never mind the home page: a search for this story within CNN returns zero.

CNN continues to fall deeper into irrelevancy while our country falls nearly unchecked toward a country dominated by its executive branch, an executive branch dangerously out of touch with the interdependent nature of the world today.

Where’s the coutrageous CNN that stood its ground in Iraq the first time around? Gone, I think. Maybe on vacation with Paris and Britney.