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VOLUME 13ISSUE 5MAY 2006

America’s MediaWatchdog

Media Hype Gas Prices toFuel Liberal Agenda

DDDDDear Friend,We’re all paying more for a gallon of

gasoline now, and it’s not fun. No one likesto pay more for anything — not for a gallonof milk or for a loaf of bread. The price ofgas, like nearly everything else, is set bysupply and demand (and by taxes andregulations). For its part, “Big Oil” is indeedbig, multinational, with rigs, ports, tankers,and offices around theworld. And because it’sbig, it makes hugeprofits, just like othercompanies, such asMicrosoft, IBM, Wal-Mart and GE.

And the liberalmedia think that’s evil.They’re playing the gasprices issue as if it wereunique, mysterious,outside the laws ofsupply and demand andMiddle East turmoil.CBS, NBC, ABC, andCNN have even run reports suggesting thathigher gas prices are the result of a conspiracyby oil executives to gouge consumers. Themedia have no evidence of that, they just“suggest” it in their broadcasts.

The liberal media are hyping gas prices topush a liberal agenda. It is an agenda to slamoil companies as greedy, to raise taxes ongasoline, to mandate more environmentalregulations, to criticize the war in Iraq, to blamethe Administration, and, in sum, to give thegovernment more control over the oil industry. Continued on page 2

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Here at the MRC, our news analysts haveproven this leftist media agenda. OurCyberAlerts, Media Reality Checks, andappearances on TV, radio, and in print haveworked to document, expose, and neutralizethat bias. More can be done, always more,dependent upon our resources and yoursupport. Let’s look at part of the liberal game

plan and how the MRChas fought back.

When gas pricesrose in late April/earlyMay, the networks,cable news, and count-less editorials ragedabout “record high”prices or “soaring”prices or “pain at thepump.” The price of agallon of gas was indeedgoing up … but it wasnot at a “record high.”The liberal media did nottell Americans that,

when adjusted for inflation, the average priceof a gallon of gas (now around $3.00) wouldhave to be about 50 cents higher than today’sprice to be a “record high.” Factor inflation in,and gasoline was more expensive in the early1980s than it is now.

The liberal media were mum but theMRC addressed this fact, and related issues,in nine CyberAlerts from April and May, aMedia Reality Check, on radio, and in an op-ed and newsletter report from the MRC’s

ABC’s World News Tonight anchorElizabeth Vargas used the “corporate

greed” angle in reporting on oil companyprofits and suggested that a

“windfall profits tax” on oil companieswas perhaps a good idea.

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Business & Media Institute. These materials gained a lot ofplay on talk radio, on Internet blogs, in the Washington Timesand Human Events, and even through a lengthy citation byPaul Harvey, whose commentary iscarried by 1,200 radio stationsnationwide and 400 Armed ForcesNetwork stations.

Those MRC reports also addressedthe “corporate greed” angle that theliberal media were spinning. Followingthe news that ExxonMobil made $8.4billion in profit in the First Quarter of2006, CBS’s Renee Syler wondered, “Isthis a case of corporate greed out ofcontrol?” Another reporter, BiancaSolorzano, told CBS’s The Early Show,“These increasing profits are raisingquestions of corporate greed.” GeraldoRivera called the oil company CEOs “pirates.”

Yet again, MRC CyberAlerts pointed out that during thatsame First Quarter, ExxonMobil paid $25 billion – four timesas much — in taxes. As for 2005, the liberal media wereoutraged that ExxonMobil earned $36 billion in profit in 2005.But they didn’t tell Americans that ExxonMobil also paid $99billion in taxes last year.

Further, as the MRC has documented, ExxonMobil’s profitmargin in 2005 was 10.6 percent, making it No. 116 out of500 top companies. Companies that earned much higher profitmargins in 2005, but for which the liberal media didn’t say much,included Microsoft (30.8 percent) and Yahoo! (36.1 percent).

Pushing their liberal agenda further, the elite media advocateda “windfall tax” on oil company profits. This was proposed by

This Week’s George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas of WorldNews Tonight, Charlie Gibson of Good Morning America, andcountless other liberal media. Follow the liberal logic: Consumers

are paying too much. Gas prices arealready high in large part because of taxes,which take an average 46 cents per gallon(60 cents in New York City). So, let’s taxthe oil companies even more, which willdrive up prices more and give more moneyto Uncle Sam, not the consumer.

It’s insane. It’s also absurd to seehow far the liberal media will go. Forinstance, the CBS Evening News reportedthat the elderly were skipping meals andmedicine to help pay for gasoline. Overat ABC, World News Tonight showcaseda woman who claimed she pawned herwedding gifts for gas money.

Skipping medicine? Pawning wedding gifts?The liberal media will stop at nothing to advance their

cradle-to-grave welfare state agenda. Their distortions areeffective, unfortunately, as the hype over gas prices proves.The MRC is fighting back against that hype, against that liberalagenda. It’s a constant struggle against, ironically, multi-billiondollar elite media monsters that complain about multi-billiondollar oil firms. But we relish the fight and we thank you foryour support.

Until next time,

L. Brent Bozell III Founder and President

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Sharyn Alfonsi, with the CBS EveningNews, reported that the elderly

were skipping meals and medicinein order to pay for gasoline.

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Free Market Project Gets a New Name:Business & Media InstituteBY DAN GAINOR • THE BOONE PICKENS FREE MARKET FELLOW

Media Spin on Oil Gives Energy to BMIThe major spike in oil and gasoline prices brought one benefit to the

MRC’s Business & Media Institute (formerly Free Market Project.) BMI’songoing analysis of coverage of energy and the media’s consistent assault oncorporate America resulted in roughly 90 interviews on the topic.

Dan Gainor, The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow and BMI Director,logged about 80 interviews to tell the story the media weren’t reporting: oilcompanies are not to blame for the hikes. Those appearances included somenotable conservative talk show hosts such as Lars Larson, Fred Honsbergerand Martha Zoller. Veteran talk show host G. Gordon Liddy read aloud an entireGainor op-ed about gas prices from the Washington Times. Notable conservativeMark Levin also quoted from the op-ed. Talk show host extraordinaire SeanHannity used most of the points as well.

In addition, Mr. Gainor appeared on-air in major market cities from Floridato California and most states in between – D.C., Los Angeles, Atlanta and San Francisco, to name just a few. Deputy EditorAmy Menefee also began to stretch her radio wings – speaking on five shows herself in the one-month period.

The Business & Media Institute, is plowing inroads in the media nationwide and furthering its mission to advance aculture of free enterprise in America.

In early May, the MRC’s Free Market Project, forwhich I serve as director, changed its name to the Business& Media Institute (BMI).

A change was needed because (1) the Free MarketProject, or FMP, moniker did not convey its link to themedia or to media coverage of business and markets; and(2) research showed that, outside of economic andacademic circles, many people do not know what “freemarket” means. It is, simply, abstract, and one needs tobe precise and lucid in today’s information-dominant world.

The new name, Business & Media Institute(www.businessandmedia.org), provides clarity tooutsiders unfamiliar with our long history of documenting,exposing and correcting media bias against the culture offree enterprise. Talk radio hosts and experts inWashington’s think tank community agree that the newname simplifies the question about what types of topicswe handle. It is our goal to be on the front lines of allbusiness and media issues. The new name will make thateasier.

The BMI’s mission statement, “Advancing the cultureof free enterprise in America,” explains what the Business& Media Institute is about and why it exists. The liberal

media, by and large, do not understand basic economics,they do not understand prices, they don’t understand orappreciate entrepreneurs, they criticize successful bigbusinesses, and they have an irrational (and hypocritical)hostility toward capitalism and private property. In short,they don’t understand the economic roots of America’sbusiness success – free enterprise – and they thus mis-report or willfully deceive Americans through theirinadequate and biased coverage. The liberal media haveturned business into a caricature and ignored the fact thatfree enterprise is the backbone of American success.

The Business & Media Institute is going to changethat. In fact, we already have to a degree, with more than160 radio interviews so far in 2006 reaching several millionAmericans, a weekly newsletter, and op-eds published inThe Washington Times, Human Events and Investor’sBusiness Daily. We are moving forward, and we thankyou, MRC supporters, for providing the means for theBMI to advance the culture of free enterprise in America.

Dan Gainor is the Boone Pickens Free Market Fellowand director of the Media Research Center’s Business &Media Institute, www.businessandmedia.org.

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NBC’s Tim Vincent – displaying his andNBC’s left-wing bias – reported fromNew York wearing a shirt sporting

the hammer and sickle of thetotalitarian Soviet Union.

Reporter SportsSoviet Garb

The liberal media went ballisticwhen Britain’s Prince Harry attended aparty dressed as a Nazi, and the liberalmedia have dressed-down others forsporting fascist, racist, and evenConfederate regalia. Yet when it comesto totalitarian communism and one oftheir own, the liberal media shrug andsay… nothing. NBC’s Tim Vincent, acorrespondent for Access Hollywood anda contributor to Today, reported fromRockefeller Plaza on April 14 wearing ared and gold t-shirt with the hammer and

CNN’s Jack Cafferty seriouslycontended that Bill Clinton would win

the presidential election today“in a heartbeat.” He “would be the

answer to a prayer.”

sickle emblem of the Soviet Red Army.Vincent gave another report, aired onApril 17, wearing the same shirt. Theliberal media said nothing.

Marxist policies in the USSR killed40 million people. Along with China,Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, andCambodia, communism killed more than100 million people in the 20th century.NBC clearly has no sense of history andno sense of decency.

Give Us Clinton!If Bill Clinton could run for

President again he would win and itwould be “the answer to a prayer,”predicted left-wing commentator JackCafferty on the April 11 edition of CNN’sThe Situation Room. Although Clintonnever attained 50 percent of the vote –

43 percent in 1992, 46 percent in 1996– Cafferty said Clinton would win “in aheartbeat.”

“The Democrats have no one,” saidCafferty. “They have a couple of potentialcandidates which they seem intent onkeeping out of the public spotlight. I mean,I think the Governor down in Virginiamight be a good guy. They got BarackObama in Illinois. But instead, who do yousee on TV? You see Hillary and ChuckSchumer and Ted Kennedy. I, you know,Clinton would be the answer to a prayer.Not Hillary, her husband.”

John “Very Bitter”Mashek

John Mashek, a veteran journalistwho posed questions at three presidentialdebates during his career, has used hisblog on the U.S. News Web site to writea derogatory diatribe mocking theMRC’s DisHonors Awards. “Leave it tothe right-wing to cross the preposterousline just when you think it reached thatpoint long ago,” Mashek wrote on April6. He then attacked the DisHonorsjudges. “The big joke is the panel ofjudges. They were William F. BuckleyJr., Ann Coulter, Steve Forbes, SeanHannity, Laura Ingraham, RushLimbaugh, Robert Novak, and L. BrentBozell.”(In fact, though Mashek citedher three times, Coulter was not a judge.)

Mashek then offered an insult: “Theonly real journalist in that motley crewin my judgment is Bob Novak …. Therest of those judges are primarilypropagandists or entertainers who haveno real standing as journalists with theexception of Buckley. Coulter, Limbaugh,Hannity, and Ingraham are entertainers andnot very good at it either.”

Leaks Media LikeABC, CBS, and NPR praised the

recently fired CIA employee MaryMcCarthy for her reported leaking ofclassified national security information tothe Washington Post, during wartime,about secret terrorists’ prisons inEurope—a leak for a story that earned the

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NBC Nightly News anchorBrian Williams hyped the

“Gospel of Judas,”reporting that, in actuality,“Judas was well-regarded

by Jesus and perhaps not atreacherous man.”

☛ NBC’s Katie Couric praises TedKennedy’s national health careplan: “You talk about the things

that need to be done, Senator, from ‘reclaiming our constitutional democracy …to guaranteeing health care for every America[n].’ Noble, noble goals for sure.”☛ Fired CBS producer Mary “Forged Memo” Mapes blasts Rush Limbaugh: “Idon’t need to be lectured on ethics from a much married, obese, drug addict.” ☛President Bush “probably also leaked” CIA officer Valerie Plame’s name and, “ifhe did, you can be hung for that! That’s treason! You could be killed!” rails actorand “legal scholar” Ben Affleck. ☛ Jane Fonda complains that “the right winghas been very assiduous in fanning the flame of the myth of Hanoi Jane. Youknow, they’ve spread lies on the Internet about things I supposedly did that aren’ttrue.” ☛ Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift rants: “President Clinton’s manipulation ofwords did not set off a chain of events that took us into an unnecessary war andcost people’s lives....The President lied, they see the video clips and they knowthe consequences of a war with over two thousand people dead.” ☛ And finally, NBC anchor and “Bibleexpert” Brian Williams opines: “Yesterday, we learned that a manuscript, the only known text of the Gospelof Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years. It’s a bit beaten up, but it shows Judas was well-regarded by Jesusand perhaps not a treacherous man after all.” Silly Jesus. He never could get anything right.

P i e c e s P i e c e s

Post a Pulitzer Prize. This nationalsecurity leak “is a victory for theAmerican people,” Sam Donaldsonjoyfully remarked on ABC’s This Week.“Remember the great American saying,‘disobedience to tyranny is obedienceto God.’”

NPR’s Juan Williams could barelycontain his joy at the national securitybreach. Mary McCarthy’s action was“an act of conscience, an act of honor,”

shouted Williams. Yet when I. Lewis“Scooter” Libby, former Chief of Staffto Vice President Cheney, leakeddeclassified information related to Iraq andCIA officer Valerie Plame, the liberal mediawent apoplectic, calling it “retaliation” bya “vengeful” Bush Administration tryingto silence war critics. In liberal media land,Mary McCarthy is a hero, Lewis Libbyis a hatchet-man.

Stone-ing BushClearly desperate for “news,”

Hardball’s Chris Matthews turned toRolling Stone magazine on April 19 topromote its Bush-bashing cover: TheWorst President in History? “Eric, letme ask you about the cover, because itis gonna’ come out and you’re on topush it, and I want you to push it,”hyped Matthews to Rolling Stone’sNational Affairs Editor Eric Bates. Thelatter then predicted that Bush is a“colossal historical disgrace. Can’tpredict what’s gonna’ happen in the nexttwo years but so far ranks right down

Apparently desperate for “news,”MSNBC’s Chris Matthews prattled on

at length about a Rolling Stonemagazine cover story slamming

President Bush.

NPR’s Juan Williams praisedthe disclosure of classified national

security information as“an act of honor.”

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there with James Buchanan, HerbertHoover and Andrew Johnson.”

Matthews was ecstatic and wonderedwhether Bush had “trashed the economy”or “just shifted wealth to the bigtaxpayers.” Bates chirped: “Well I thinkthat, that does trash the economy. … He’smishandled the biggest natural disaster inAmerican history. … He’s been verysingle-minded as he has been in Iraq. It’sbeen tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.”

The Political PultizersThe recent unveiling of the Pulitzer Prizes had more

of the same politicized whiff that the Oscars oozedearlier this year. Merit is taking a back seat now to“edginess” in both the news and entertainment media.“Speaking truth to power” is in vogue, even if it’s nottrue and even if it’s not in the public interest.

The roster of Pulitzer winners had an unmistakableget-Bush smell to it, especially Dana Priest’s exposingsecret prisons in Europe for terrorists in the WashingtonPost, and James Risen’s and Eric Lichtblau’s NSA-surveillance exposure in the New York Times. ThePulitzers have a prize for Public Service, but these leaksin the War on Terror might better deserve an award forPublic Endangerment. As Bill Bennett put it, manyAmericans think it’s odd that on these stories, “theleaker can be prosecuted, but the person who wrote itdown, told every citizen about it, and told every enemyof every citizen of this country gets a Pulitzer Prize.”

There were other awards. The Washington Postwon for exposing the offenses of lobbyist JackAbramoff. Nothing wrong with that except for this:notice that Post reporters like Susan Schmidt, whosework on the Abramoff beat won an award this year,never won a Pulitzer for dogged investigations andscoops they unearthed in the Clinton years.

In fact, if you look back through the eight years ofthe Clintons, you’d be incredibly hard-pressed to findmore than one Pulitzer awarded for exposing the ever-bubbling Clinton scandals. In 1999, a New York Timesteam (including ace investigator Jeff Gerth) won fordisclosing the “corporate sale of American technologyto China, with U.S. government approval.” ColumnistMaureen Dowd won that year for her Lewinsky-eracolumns, but they attacked all sides with equal vigor. Sherailed against Ken Starr for “dragging us down to thepoint where we have to hear the sex secrets of crepuscularRepublican swamp life” like Rep. Dan Burton.

Even the lesser Pulitzer prizes this year carried apolitical tinge. Feature photography winner Todd Heislerof the Rocky Mountain News won for “his haunting,behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marineswho return from Iraq in caskets,” it being too difficult, Isuppose, to capture visuals of dramatic, front-line scenesof Colorado Marines performing acts of heroism.

Editorial cartooning winner Mike Luckovich of theAtlanta Journal-Constitution won for “simple but

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piercing” cartoons like Bush and Cheney saying “we’veturned the corner” in Iraq – from “Incompetence” to“Fantasy,” and another with Bush telling Daffy Duckhe’s doing a “heckuva job” with bird-flu planning.

Perhaps the most audacious award forconservative-bashing-over-merit is the Criticism prizefor Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan, whotried to turn heart patient Dick Cheney’s wearing a parkato an Auschwitz ceremony into an international incident.She also demeaned the family outfits of Supreme Courtnominee John Roberts when his nomination wasannounced. “His wife and children stood before thecameras, groomed and glossy in pastel hues — like atrio of Easter eggs, a handful of Jelly Bellies, three littleNecco wafers.” Little wafers? If the Roberts familywere not white, that line would have started a majorruckus over “dehumanizing” portrayals.

Meanwhile, when it came to assessing SaddamHussein’s courtroom suits, she glossed right over the148 deaths he admitted and talked about how he was indanger of looking “jaunty and rakish” like Frank Sinatraor Dean Martin, a Las Vegas lounge act. There’s a greatword for this kind of politicized fashion criticism:shallow. It doesn’t deserve prizes. It deserves to befish wrap.

The Pulitzer judges are not measuring the degreeof talent in the journalistic means, but only the politicalends they accomplish. The Pulitzer judges are awardingthe media’s endorsements of fashionable left-wingpolitical causes and outcomes, where the rightness ofthe stories matters less than the rightness of the targetselection.

Meanwhile, at CNSNews.com, the reporters andeditors are focused on providing Americans, and theworld, with the facts: who, what, where, when, andwhy (when applicable). CNSNews.com is not bent ondestroying people or in winning prizes for advancingleft-wing ideas. Cybercast News Service is dedicatedto presenting all legitimate sides of a story and debunkingmyths about cultural and policy issues. We win ourawards with every story filed and every story read.

L. Brent Bozell’s weekly column is nationally syndicatedFor more columns, visit www.MRC.org.

Brent Bozell’s April 26, 2006, Nationally Syndicated Column

BY L. BRENT BOZELL III

A M E R I C A ’ S M E D I A W A T C H D O G

MRC IN THE NEWSThe experts at the Media Research Center are interviewed almost every dayon stories of national importance, often reaching millions of Americans daily.They provide analysis and commentary on radio, TV, the Internet, in magazines,books and in newspapers, always striving to help restore political balance tothe major media. Some of the MRC’s latest media appearances include thefollowing:

Documenting, Exposing and Fighting Media Bias

TELEVISION☛ FNC, The O’Reilly Factor – April 26☛ FNC, Fox News Watch – April 22☛ ABC, News Channel 8 –April 29☛ FNC, Fox & Friends – _________???

RADIOPaul Harvey, May 9Sean Hannity Tuned Into America, April 25G. Gordon Liddy, April 28NRA News, May 5Dateline Washington, April 18, May 4Tom Hartman Show, May 12Jim Bohannon Show, May 2Money Dots on Main Street USA, May 10Lars Larson, April 18Right Balance, May 3State Government Radio, Colorado, April 20State Government Radio, North Carolina, April 20Accent Radio Network, Clearwater, FL, April 24American Family Radio, April 17America at Night, April 20, May 10Wisconsin Public Radio, May 1, 2006WGST, Atlanta, GA, May 3KLGO, Austin, TX, May 3WDUN, Gainesville, FL, May 2KFNN, Phoenix, AZ, May 5KSAL-AM, Salina, KS, April 27KSEV-AM, Houston, TX, April 27WJGR-AM, Jacksonville, FL, April 27WIST-AM, New Orleans, April 28WDRC-AM, Hartford, CT, April 28KVOI-AM, Tuscon, AZ, April 30KTLK-AM, Burbank CA, April 30WJOL-AM, Crest Hill, IL, May 1WAIC-AM, Springfield, MA, April 28KPDQ, Portland, OR, April 20KCOL, Northern Colorado, April 19, May 5KVLI, Beaumont/Houston, TX, April 20WAMT, Orlando, FL, April 19KROQ, Los Angeles, CA, April 19

KXRO, Aberdeen, WA, April 19WNAV, Annapolis, MD, April 20KFTK, St. Louis, MO, April 19WPEG, Charlotte, NC, April 20WFLA, Orlando, FL, April 24, May 4KSFO, San Francisco, CA, April 26KOGO-AM, San Diego, CA, April 18,

May 3WAIC-AM, Springfield, MA, April 18WFLA-AM, Tampa, FL, April 19WVOM-AM, Bangor, ME, April 19WGIR-AM, Manchester, NH, April 19WNTA-AM, Rockford, IL, April 19WICH-AM, Norwich, CT, April 19KFBK-AM, Sacramento, CA, April 19KDKA-AM, Pittsburgh, PA, April 21KIT-AM, Yakima, WA, April 25KHND-AM, Harvey, ND, April 25WHON, Richmond, IN, April 27WACV-AM, Montgomery, AL, April 27WCLO-AM, Janesville, WI, April 28KFKA, Ft. Collins, CO, April 21, May 9WJGR, Jacksonville, FL, April 24KOGO, San Diego, CA, April 19WIBC, Indianapolis, IN, April 20WCV, Montgomery, AL, April 18KFTK, St. Louis, MO, April 19

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WIBA, Madison, WI, April 28, May 4WOAI, San Antonio, TX, April 24WCHS, Charleston, WV, April 24WIOJ, Jacksonville, FL, April 25KRCN, Denver, CO, April 21WAMT, Orlando, FL, April 24

PRINTFederal News Service, May 10Associated Press, May 6Newsday, May 5Post-Standard, May 4Boston Globe, April 30Washington Times, April 4, 25, 26, 29,May 8, 9Orange County Register, (Larry Eldercolumn), April 22Los Angeles Times, April 24Baltimore Examiner, April 5, 10, 17Investor’s Business Daily, April 24Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 23,30, May 8Palm Beach Post, March 29Canton Repository, April 26Albany Times-Union, April 16Winston Salem Journal, April 20Tampa Tribune, April 18Leaf-Chronicle, April 17Baltimore Sun, April 16San Diego Union-Tribune, April 16Alexandria Gazette-Packet, April 13Augusta Chronicle, April 15

INTERNETSlate.com, May 10National Review Online, May 1Movieweb.com, May 2Wall Street Journal Online, April 30CBS News Public Eye blog, April 21New Media Journal, April 17, 22, 24, May 8Human Events Online, April 14, 20, 26, 27, May 1, 4, 5RedState blog, April 18NewsMax.com, April 29ChronWatch, April 21, May 3, 6, 9The Hotline (National Journal), April 21Townhall.com, April 20Conservativevoice.com, April 18

On Fox & Friends, Jeff Johnson,investigative reporter for

CNSNews.com, discussed the risk ofidentity theft created when state and

local agencies allow anonymous accessto confidential personal informationposted on government Web sites.

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