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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (11323)	6/8/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: MNI	Respond to of 17770

Don't panic, Gustave, first I will write a letter of approvement of your statements. They are very nicely and carefully based on factual information, and the relation between the facts given and the thesis proposed is more understandable than in what you wrote before. When I come home I should immediately switch on the TV set and look out for the crying Belgradians. Strangely I never saw such information. What I saw was an unisono endevilishment of the Serbs, an unisono victimization of Kosovar Albanians (with one strange thing added: the fact that they tend to be muslims was not mentioned over several days before and after the air-strikes' beginning), an unisono appraisal of the NATO bombing technical capacity (strangely it didn't end the crisis in a few days) and an explicit hiding of the damages to persons, whether military, civilian, Serbs or Kosovars. It took some time until the Western news picked these damages up and then only reluctantly and very unfocusedly. The KLA somehow faded out of news-presence just after Rambouillet talks were stalled, and it took a long time until it appeared again that this is a violent/terrorist movement. The above-mentioned "strange thing" can be seen as a hint of cultural bias in Europe. But altogether it is the bias of western media taking part in this war on NATO side and relying for long time mostly or nearly exclusively on NATO information. Let's face it, talking reasonably about the news is difficult in times of war. May be I should be unhappy I missed out from these TV programmes too long ? Just mentioning: Whether these TV-programmes are silly or not is not relevant! I thought the idea is silly (the programmes as well, but it is irrelevant, as I had said before). BTW have you seen that Marcos had the same idea like I had on the spreading of historical "news" ?