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To: stockman_scott who wrote (103842)	7/2/2003 8:31:00 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) of 281500

What is worrying is that in suburbs such as al-Mustansiriya, a moderate, middle class enclave of academics and businessmen, there was little apparent sympathy for the victims. Try having a heart attack on a NYC subway platform, or Paris Metro platform and see how much sympathy there is (particularly if you're black....) Articles like this should be used as case studies in high school on reporting spin. Another reporter would no doubt have reported the same incident and it would sound like a completely different event. They actually teach kids in French lycees how to read through news media reporting, and it really is a good exercise to undertake. Much like the well known black and white picture of a dalmatian on a background of what may be snow... at first it doesn't look like anything, but once "seen", it leaps out at you and you never see it again without instantly seeing the dog in the picture. Biased reporting is exactly the same, whichever side of the spectrum it comes from. Apart from that, bothering with such reporting is a total waste of my time, and I do not waste others posting such stuff.

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