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  Friday  June 28  2002    11: 38 AM

The media can't control everything

The Mix Is the Message #3: A Tale of Two Books

There are two fast-selling books in the marketplace that are remarkable in their repudiation of the general feeling, often reinforced by the media, that George Bush enjoys enormous popularity and stands invincible in the wake of 9/11.

Both Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" and Mark Crispin Miller's "Bush's Dyslexicon" are powerful, damning and even scornful of the President's standing and behavior. And surprise: these books are successful, in Moore's case, unbelievably so. But you wouldn't know it from media appearances, book reviews and bookstore readings.
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