The more telling phenom is that the nytimes, an ancient media outlet, put a reporter on the big "Palin's wiki article" scoop rather than, say, Obama's wiki article.
I wonder if any of Obama's campaign volunteers edited his article... I wonder if the nytimes would try to turn that into a scandal. If they haven't turned his black theology/domestic terrorist associations/Chicago corruption scandals into scandals, I'm guessing...no.
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Here is what "shaping the flow of information" looks like:
Sen. Barack Obama is warning TV stations and asking the Justice Department to intervene in an attempt to block the airing of an ad by a non-profit group that links him to an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73448
...okay? BHO is trying to muscle a private group from publishing information about him that the nytimes (etc, etc) is all too happy to suppress.