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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Schools Matter: Dead Until Proven Guilty: U. S. Assassination of U. S. Citizens

Schools Matter: Dead Until Proven Guilty: U. S. Assassination of U. S. Citizens:

Dead Until Proven Guilty: U. S. Assassination of U. S. Citizens

When Ted Koppel began Nightline over 30 years ago, he could not have imagined today's (or tonight's) version with host Terry Moron, or is that Moran, who offers a newsy feel to an endless supply of nothing stories that aren't quite titillating enough for hosts of Entertainment Tonight. And even the real stories they cover, including the latest assassinations of American citizens abroad, without the burdensome benefit of capture and trial, are done so with the tepid empty-headedness that we have come to expect from the corporate media in general.

Night before last ABC offered a breathless digitally-enhanced animated recreation of the digitally-enhanced distance dusting of the two citizens in question, which was followed by Moron's puff-ball interview with the increasingly-vapid and increasingly-youthful and ever-glamorous Christiane Amanpour (at right), whose enthusiasm could not be contained for the fact that Obama has been even more heedless than W. in carrying out this facet of the our terrrorist war on terror. So much for the Constitution and