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Dead Tree Alert 1: After the Inaugural

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A new President with high approval ratings is taking on a national crisis that no one wants to see him screw up. Can the media cover him toughly and critically? It didn’t do so hot when the President was George W. Bush and the crisis was the 9/11 attacks. Whether it can do any better this time around—and whether Obama will end-around the press as Bush did—is the subject of my Tuned In column this week.