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Cable news can be fairly accused of stoking post-9/11 jitters. But this week, media-generated hysteria reached new heights. A Turner Broadcasting marketing scheme triggered an emergency response in Boston, and Turner subsidiary CNN unwittingly helped ring the false alarm.
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