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Missile Defense

• June 8 -- Reagan's Devolving Idea of Missile Defense
The passing of Ronald Reagan is the apparent hook for a Times story on missile defense, which features the eye-rolling tone the Times usually employs when discussing the issue. The paper also quotes two unlabeled outside experts from the same liberal defense group.

• May 4 -- “Star Wars” Graduates from “Misbegotten…National Fixation”
In today’s Science Times section, reporter James Glanz previewed “Star Wars: The Next Version.” Reagan’s “national fixation…which faded into the realm of misbegotten high-tech dreams,” is now becoming reality. Glanz balanced the piece with conservative missile-defense supporters and liberal critics, but labels were not applied.

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org