THE FOURTH ESTATE

How bad news warps our view of the world

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/what-all-this-bad-news-is-doing-to-us.html 

The NYT discovers the "t" word

http://prospect.org/article/new-york-times-finally-comes-around-torture
 
How the press rewards the GOP's bad behavior

http://tinyurl.com/m5qpwdf
Pundits blame Obama for GOP extremism

What Politico thinks is important

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