Column: Ann Coulter — comedy or calumnies?

People either love or hate the pronouncements of conservative columnist Ann Coulter on TV, in speeches and in a syndicated column run by about 100 newspapers. One of those newspapers is Stars and Stripes, and that fact has enlivened the letters-to-the-editor pages.

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Column: Regarding Iraq, just what is the media’s message?

How fair have the media been in covering the Iraq war? Are the nation’s premier newspapers and television networks hellbent on declaring this war lost, or have they acted like lapdogs of the administration? They have been accused of both.

What’s more recent is discussion of Stars and Stripes’ role in all this, a discussion with the added dimension that Stripes is a newspaper of the Department of Defense — although one that is editorially independent.

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