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The students who occupied Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus this Thanksgiving didn't win their demands, but at least they made their opinion known. In the face of the escalation of war in Afghanistan, it's hard to know what building to occupy. In several polls since this summer, a slim majority of Americans reported opposition to the war--in September, 51 percent told the Washington Post/ABC News poll that the war was not ?worth fighting," let alone escalating. But that view's barely been seen on the opinion pages of this nation's most powerful papers. The media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting has run the numbers and the Washington Post's the worst offender. Ten times as many pro-war columns appeared as anti-war. The New York Times was almost as bad. Of 43 columns on the war, only 7 opposed, 14 called for escalation, and 22 called for a new idea. Despite polls showing more women than men opposed escalation, not one anti-war woman got to share her views in either paper. In fact, women wrote only 12 of 110 columns in FAIR's report. Fareed Zakaria, giving voice to the Beltway consensus, said: ?It is time to get real about Afghanistan. Withdrawal is not a serious option.? Does this mean that 51 to 53% of the American people simply aren't ?serious?? The ?Church of the Savvy,? as today's guest Jay Rosen calls them, clearly think so. The F Word is a regular commentary by Laura Flanders, the host of GRITtv which broadcasts weekdays on satellite TV (Dish Network Ch. 9415 Free Speech TV) on cable, and online at GRITtv.org and TheNation.com. Follow GRITtv or GRITlaura on Twitter.com.

Clueless reporters, Woodhead and Blundstein, follow-up on a promising lead but find the truth to be more elusive than they expected.

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