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- From: marks%math.berkeley.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Greg Marks)
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- Subject: Re: Journalism a Dangerous Profession/ed-lp
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 19:35:23 GMT
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- Not to nitpick on an important and informative post, but while
- Freedom House can indubitably be characterized as right wing, I don't
- think it can be correctly called a human rights organization, except
- insofar as it seeks to ensure that human rights are sufficiently
- violated by the U.S. Its most famous, pseudo-scholarly study showed
- that the U.S. media were insufficiently enthusiastic about prospects for
- victory in the Vietnam War (in its words, "biased," "Communist dupes,"
- etc.). In fact, the media were considerably more optimistic about
- prospects for success than was the Pentagon and the generals in the field.
- In other words, Freedom House's standards for jingoistic revelry are very
- high. For more on this subject, see Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman,
- "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media," Pantheon
- Books, 1988.
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- Greg Marks
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