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- Villains like Blair and their cut-and-dried crimes lies bad, truth good! are easier to deal with than the systemic problems with journalism that people really care about.
- How a floor reporter works a cut-and-dried conventionNBC's Chris Wallace was getting edgy.
- So it seemed pretty cut-and-dried that his bosses at CBS Radio would suspend his show half frat party, half political salon for the Beltway elite for two weeks, and that .