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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:37:36 -0600
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- From: CHELAGOI <CHOWNING@ACUVAX.ACU.EDU>
- Subject: RE: Zahir, a test of the media
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- Quoting the State Department stats in the press is one thing screaming at
- the world with six inch letters on the front page of the morning paper is
- quite another. Will the press put the killings in Bosnia on the
- front and center burner? Me thinks not, not until outside forces make it
- somehow the right thing to do. The same was true concerning Somalia.
- Thousands were dying each day and the press yawned at the whole matter.
- They knew about it, but the gatekeepers decided (for reasons under
- discussion on this list) to knot bring it into the faces of the public
- so that they could not hlep but see it and help.
- You wanted some hard facts. There they are. You brought up Bosnia and
- I Somalia.
-
- Sure, it is not not true that the press manipulates everything. There are
- however some very severe issues which are "intentionally" played down.
-
- --- Chelagoi
-
- BTW, lets keep the discussion right up front here. IMHO
-