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Robert Blake & the Media The murder allegation against actor Robert Blake is leading cable TV newscasts and commanding the front pages of New York tabloids. And commentator Jake Tapper is having flashbacks of the "summer of Gary Condit." Tapper urges his fellow journalists to keep the intellectual high ground they claimed after Sept. 11.

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Robert Blake & the Media

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Robert Blake & the Media

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The murder allegation against actor Robert Blake is leading cable TV newscasts and commanding the front pages of New York tabloids. And commentator Jake Tapper is having flashbacks of the "summer of Gary Condit." Tapper urges his fellow journalists to keep the intellectual high ground they claimed after Sept. 11.