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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sydney Morning Herald</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The New York Times' role in promoting war on
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<P class=articledetails><BYLINE>By Antony
Loewenstein</BYLINE><BR><DATE>March 23, 2004</DATE><BR></P></TD>
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clear=all><BOD>This is the first 'Engineering consent' column by Antony
Loewenstein, to focus on the inside workings of big media.
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<P>“One of the most entrenched and disturbing features of American journalism
[is] its pack mentality. Editors and journalists don’t like to diverge too
sharply from what everyone else is writing.” Michael Massing, The New York
Review of Books, February 26, 2004</P>
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