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Saturday, 4 May 2013

Who Is Behind Planet Money?

Posted on 03:00 by Unknown

      The Citizens Journalists Exchange blog thinks that the critics of the NPR hit piece on Social Security disability need to take off the kid gloves:


Just over a week ago,  my Twitter feed
started getting bombarded with links to the latest — and quite possibly
the scummiest — Planet Money/This American Life propaganda piece on NPR
for the financial industry, disguised as highbrow
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