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Glenn Greenwald is reliably awesome writing on the U.S. political scene, with a particular focus on media support for the Iraq war. He's been all over the Pentagon-approved independent military experts story, and today recounts something even I find shocking for its directness: an admission, in a TV interview, that corporate execs at MSNBC deliberately and openly forced a pro-Bush, pro-War bias. It isn't the first time we've heard this, either, as Greenwald recounts, but the audacity of it still unnerves me. Manufacturing Consent doesn't even go far enough for this.

Russell Brown took note of this campaign to save 'Dollhouse' before it even starts - another case where reality follows close on the heels of satire.

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Benicio del Toro won Best Actor for his starring role in Soderbergh's enormous two-part biopic Che - but one has to wonder, do the films include this little-known incident between Che and Mao?