Readings — From the July 2012 issue
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Independent journalism suffers an identity crisis
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The fourth estate — From the February 1979 issue
The First Amendment makes strange bedfellows
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Competition in the intelligence markets
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Propaganda dressed in the robes of the law
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Percentage by which the risk of type 2 diabetes increases for every two hours a day that a person watches television:

Two bottled ghosts—of an old man and a young girl—were sold at auction in New Zealand.

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.