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Something is Different: How the Media is Covering the Phelps Scandal

Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.

Not surprisingly, in the days following the Michael Phelps’ bong picture and subsequent admission of acting in a “youthful and inappropriate way,” hundreds of articles have been written on the topic. What is surprising, however, is the sympathetic angle many of the articles have taken.
Radley Balko of The Agitator wrote a fictional post entitled “A [...]

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