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On The Media: "Bad Sourcing" (January 21, 2011) →

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Gulf of Tonkin - epically bad official information. It’s exactly like bad food, sometimes deliberately poisoned, sometimes spoiled by accident or happenstance. And it should be treated like food, with some knowledge of its provenance and nutritional value, consumed only after judicious prodding and a good long sniff, because you need it to live but the bad stuff can kill you.