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November 15, 1999 6:30PM
LOW ROAD
President Clinton gave a "thumbs-up" to the movie Arlington Road,
reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday. The film ends with domestic
terrorists blowing up the FBI building in downtown Washington. When
Hollywood had space aliens destroy the White House in Independence Day
— audiences famously cheered during the trailer — Hillary Clinton
publicly fretted about breeding public cynicism. Apparently it's okay to
target agencies that are on the Clintons' enemies list.
HARD TO DEFEND
The Washington Post could barely contain its glee over a new Pentagon
report on national missile defense. Witness the headline: "Panel Faults
Antimissile Program on Many Fronts: 'High Risk' of Failure Remains,
Experts Report." Yet the report is not nearly as critical as the Post
suggests. Moreover, it was actually written before a successful NMD
intercept last month, a critical moment in NMD history. The Post mentions
the hit, but not the chronology. Missile defense surely faces many
challenges - not least the continuing hostility of the press.
MICROSOFT FALLOUT
Speaking of the Post, its top story on Saturday was "MCI-Sprint Deal
Approval Unlikely." The application for the merger won't be filed until
Wednesday. Our guess is this story wouldn't have been written before Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson's anti-Microsoft decision.
PRESS PACK
The Detroit Free Press's new advertising slogan: "If you want to get it,
you have to get it." The Washington Post's advertising slogan: "If you
don't get it, you don't get it."
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Updated By:
Ramesh Ponnuru - Senior Editor
John J. Miller - National Political Reporter
Kate Dwyer - Editorial Associate
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