>>> didn't c-span cover it?<<<
Foxlette, if you were attempting to control what the public hears, would you feel good if CNN, MSNBC and Fox didn't broadcast what you didn't want the people to hear? I don't think you and I have to go to far in order to determine the extent of C-span's viewing audiences as measured to the aforementioned 'Big Three.'
>>>didn't the newspapers cover it?<<<
So what if they did. Are you downplaying the power of television, especially live event broadcasts?
>>>isn't it more an issue you have with the press and who they chose to cover?<<<
No. It's my firm belief that Powell's going live before the press was intentionally meant to divert the American public from hearing what the Iraqi ambassador was presenting to the United Nations Security Council.
>>>if you're about to go to war with a country, if you're angry and frustrated with their behavior and policy, no, I don't think you have to sit and listen to what you would consider pure rhetoric.<<<
So much for intellectual discourse or a fair presentation of intelligent material that most thinking people would deem worthy in order to formulate opinion. I guess, you're right, it doesn't matter. People in America only have a right to one opinion only, the Administration's, especially in a matter so serious where sons and daughters of America will be facing the grim reaper on a battlefield, a battlefield that considered opinion of the populace might otherwise might not have made possible. |
