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Hey, watch the shark attack talk! It makes some of us down here a little nervous.

As for Deep Throat, I do think it is pretty interesting. Not 24 hour coverage interesting but interesting enough. I'm a little too young to remember it first hand but I do remember my mom watching the coverage of the hearings every day. I'm guessing if you followed it at the time it's pretty cool to have this last little bit revealed.

By  Jambo, at 8:05 AM  

Yeah, I get the "Aha! So that's who it was" moment. The attention beyond that, though, is a waste of ink.

It is, I'll suggest, another example of intrinsic media bias -- reporters and editors (like bloggers) cover what they think is interesting. At the very least, what reporters and editors think is interesting is influenced by their status as reporters and editors. It's not a left/right bias, but it's one of the many influences on news coverage.

By  Hammer, at 8:23 AM  

You guys don't really believe that Felts is Deep Throat do you?

I smell consipracy all over again.

Let's see... Who is old, might not live too long, recently had a stroke, lost memory, suffers moments of incoherence, and we can protect to not having interviews? Then we leak the story to a news worthy source, say Vanity Fair. We'll get the suckers believe for sure that this guy is Deep Throat.

By  Anonymous, at 8:51 AM  

Yeah, I believe it. It'd be a great conspiracy, though.

By  Hammer, at 9:08 AM  

BTW, after re-reading, I see my sarcasm did not come through on Vanity Fair. What other important, newsworthy stories has Vanity Fair broken? Any?

By  Anonymous, at 10:30 AM  

I think they've done some good work on cleavage.

By  Hammer, at 10:44 AM  

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