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To: KonKilo who wrote (104928)	7/12/2003 4:54:56 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) of 281500

The Neocon hawks' inability to see any Iraqi who is not smiling or tossing flowers has been partly to blame for leading us into the morass in which we now find ourselves. A funny or not so funny story on US "press bias". Some NPR show was doing a story about early postwar coverage and the famous "Marines pulling down Saddam statue to cheering crowds" scene in Baghdad. The US networks, biased as they are, showed only the close in shots, where you couldn't tell how many people were actually involved; the rest of the world saw a big, mostly empty square with maybe a couple hundred people in it. Imagine the whinage we'd have gotten if anybody had tried coverage like that with an antiwar protest. Somehow, I doubt the eternal "liberal press bias" whiners saw anything the least little bit wrong with the US network coverage. Everybody's got to do their part when it comes to war propaganda.

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