Media Minutes: February 3, 2006

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Media Minutes: February 3, 2006

Disturbing developments in the military's present and future plans for conducting information warfare, both overseas and at home. Large phone companies' pleas of poverty are debunked as their drive to splinter the Internet runs up against growing opposition. And CNN takes further steps to look and sound more like Fox News, adding two new right-wing commentators to its talent stable.

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