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- From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
- Subject: Re: The White Feather Campaign
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu> <Bzp7zu.GM1@nic.umass.edu> <1992Dec23.182018.29774@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:29:48 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:
- >>>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."
-
- Oooopp! I sure did fuck up right there. No doubt it's some kind of
- freudian slip. Obviously, I meant to say "the RULING class" -- or
- something like this (I think I was working on writing something like,
- "to convince the working class", but it didn't quite get there).
- Thanx, steve, for correcting me. The propoganda point, which steve
- mentions is what I was getting at though. It's really easy to get
- someone to say whatever you think is newsworthy if you just hold a
- camera up to them, or look like an official reporter.... especially if
- you're not to particular about checking that your source really is in
- a position to know what s/he claims to know.
-
- Steve Russel:
- >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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