Media Minutes for December 2, 2011
Producer: Megan Tady, Candace Clement
Length: 5:01

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Could it be that the days of rubberstamping mega telecommunications mergers in Washington, D.C. are over? Maybe not, but for AT&T, at least, the hiccups disrupting its plan to purchase wireless competitor T-Mobile just keep coming. And a new expose in Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s Extra! Magazine finds that two of the leading mainstream newspapers are breaking their own rules about quoting anonymous sources.

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