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To: epsteinbd who wrote (3444)	10/8/2001 12:59:06 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 281500

You raise a good point about the power of t.v. visuals, for both good and bad. People actually are interested in the fact that most Muslims are disgusted by the radicals. The media should interview large numbers of them to educate us and to get their well-founded opinions of Islam as a peaceful faith. We see a little, but not nearly "equal time." The networks don't have to just film "...millions having a quite tea, or people praying," although even that would be a welcome and comforting image in juxtaposition to the relatively few nuts garnering all the media attention just because it inflames passions (hatred), helps ratings, and looks good on t.v. I place a substantial part of this and other violence problems that could be solved through cool, rational problem-solving on the media, who perceives it as their job to keep everybody's passions stirred up and who does a very good job of it. We all know stories about protesters milling about in D.C. and elsewhere, chatting and laughing among themselves, until television cameramen show up and egg them on. The protesters perform for the cameras and it hits the evening news, which eggs on other more malicious, would-be protesters who see it and take it more seriously. Maybe this internet thing will eventually displace some of that media power, after streaming media comes to everyone's home and the media establishment's headlock on the all-powerful tool of video is broken. Off my soapbox...for now.