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     As graduation season wound down, the June 12 USA Today alarmed readers with a look at the “growing number of college grads” who owe more than $100,000 in student loans. But even the article’s author briefly conceded that’s the exception, not the rule.      “The average college senior graduated this year with more than $19,000 in debt. That’s a problem Joe Palazzolo would love to have,” correspondent Sandra Block began her front-page story. Palazzolo, she continued, finished a graduate…

    On the June 8 “Nightly News,” NBC’s Brian Williams squeezed in a Democratic talking point when reporting the Senate vote on the death tax.      While Williams said that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called the estate tax “unfair” and vowed to bring the legislation to a vote again later in the year, the NBC anchor added that Democrats would oppose what they call “a budget-busting giveaway to the wealthiest Americans.”     Williams left out classic conservative talking points…