A friend who is reading D-G columnist Mike Masterson as a Lenten penance notes that the man who once wrote about himself as a rising star of Arkansas journalism today advised readers:

My best advice is to believe very little, if anything, coming out of the mainstream national media today.

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Even presuming he means to differentiate “national” from his little ol’ local newspaper, I guess you should still take that as a commentary on all the Washington Post, New York Times, AP and other nationally sourced stuff that wraps around the D-G ads. Chunk it.

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