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- From: sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell)
- Subject: Re: The White Feather Campaign
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- References: <1992Dec22.035650.1538@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu> <Bzp7zu.GM1@nic.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:20:18 GMT
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- In article <Bzp7zu.GM1@nic.umass.edu> quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
- >>>It is likely, judging from the lack of confirming evidence and from
- >>>the opinions of aid workers in Bosnia that the reports are greatly
- >>>exaggerated, that the stories have been made up in order to stir up
- >>>sympathy for a Balkan war.
- >>
- >>Hmm. I don't know. They had a thing about this on NBC Nightly
- >>News last night. They had a soldier who described in detail how
- >>he raped ten women and killed six of them; how the Serbs run
- >>'bordellos' filled with the female prisoners. Both the rapes and
- >>the murders, he claims, were committed 'under orders.' They also
- >>interviewed a young woman who was pregnant from being held captive
- >>in one of these 'bordellos'. Didn't strike me as particularly
- >>ficticious.
- >
- >Hmmm... my assumption was always that NBC Nightly News is precisely a
- >work of fiction. Their sole purpose seems to be making up interesting
- >stories which, if true, would serve the interests of the working
- >class. For those of you wondering why these stories of "rape camps"
- >and all are being *FABRICATED* by the news media, I have but two
- >words: "Grosse Deutchland."
- >
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- I dont see how the news serves the interest of the working class.
- Who has the money/power to manipulate the news, if it is done?
-
- Anyway, I agree with you that the media shouldnt be taken without
- a grain of salt. Remember the old joke about a soviet and an american
- sailor meeting at sea. The soviet sailor says the only differnce between
- the two is that he knows he is being lied to.
-
- My opinion is that if these stories are propaganda, the slavs make such
- interviews available and the std sleazy journalist, eager for a story
- beyond all else gobbled up the bait the way their collegues did with
- the irqui -soilder-babykiller stories
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- SFJR
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