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Leesburg, Va.
Regarding Alexander Cockburn's March 5 "Beat the Devil" column on the New York Times and the war, titled "Sold to Mr. Gordon, Another Bridge!": This is the centennial of yellow journalism. William Randolph Hearst involved us in war against the decaying Spanish (read Habsburg) Empire over the Maine--which we blew up--early in the last century. It sold newspapers! Now in the beginning death throes of this pulp fiction and its copycats, the Times is involving us in a war against... what is it this time? Al Qaeda? Evil? Terrorism?
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