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Advertising (n.) edits the news without touching a word of it: friendlier editorials, more cautious news policy, and less investigative reporting are the compromises made on its behalf.
An Apology (n.) from a newspaper can come while it is already repeating the offence: the Times regretted its Iraq coverage just as it began covering Iran the same way.
Defiance (n.) is a crime only the weak can commit: a state must be feeble enough for the powerful to declare it out of order — which is why the strong are never defiant, whatever they do.
Democracy (n.) cannot survive a foreign military occupation, the American press holds — but only when the occupier is an enemy of Washington.
Democracy promotion (n.) moved to the front of the war aims only after the weapons failed to turn up — and the press followed without looking back.
A Democratic facade (n.) is the most an invader may intend to leave behind: control dressed up as the free choice of the occupied.
An Echo chamber (n.) matters less for the listeners it reaches than for the mainstream editors it frightens; the right's has a power over the press no liberal institution can match.
An Editorial (n.) can do worse than ignore the evidence; the Times's pro-war editorials on Iraq's weapons demanded that it be steadily avoided.
An Election (n.) held under occupation, with the budget, the oil, the bureaucracy and the media in foreign hands, may be little more than an ethnic census.
Free trade (n.) means, read closely, extended rights for investors.