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SCOOP! NATIONAL REVIEW has obtained a copy of Tagging the News: The Index to Correct Opinion, which, we have learned, is widely circulated in newsrooms. Recipients, according to an informant who has contacted NR, can suggest additions or corrections. A Central Committee, made up of John Chancellor of NBC, Peter Jennings of ABC, Johnny Apple of the New York Times, David Broder of the ‘Washington Post, and Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal, meets periodically and incorporates the best suggestions into the new edition.

Our copy was mailed to us anonymously, by a disgruntled reporter who disapproves of what he calls the “media mind patrol.” What is amazing is that its existence has been kept secret for so long. Asked for his comment, L. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va., said: “We suspected that something like this existed, but it’s good to get confirmation.” A spokesperson at the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said she had not heard of the document and “could not say” if it had antitrust implications.

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SCOOP! NATIONAL REVIEW has obtained a copy of Tagging the News: The Index to Correct Opinion, which, we have learned, is widely circulated in newsrooms. Recipients, according to an informant who has contacted NR, can suggest additions or corrections. A Central Committee, made up of John Chancellor of NBC, Peter Jennings of ABC, Johnny Apple of the New York Times, David Broder of the ‘Washington Post, and Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal, meets periodically and incorporates the best suggestions into the new edition.

Our copy was mailed to us anonymously, by a disgruntled reporter who disapproves of what he calls the “media mind patrol.” What is amazing is that its existence has been kept secret for so long. Asked for his comment, L. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va., said: “We suspected that something like this existed, but it’s good to get confirmation.” A spokesperson at the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said she had not heard of the document and “could not say” if it had antitrust implications.