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To: Richnorth who wrote (78701)	10/21/2001 1:22:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

It may very well be US policy to keep the public as little informed about what goes on in the international scene and US involvement abroad. If you substitute "corporate media mogul policy" for "US policy", then I would agree with you. I don't think that the government sets media policy; indeed, evidence of the past twenty years suggests that the government will placidly do what the large media conglomerates want them to do, so as to keep getting the megabucks in campaign contributions. Remember the Telecommunications Act of 1986? I think the corporations just said to themselves, it's very expensive to cover international news well, and nobody at home cares very much, why bother? We can just as well send in a team in case of trouble. Of course that doesn't work well, as we now see. What CNN is reporting is fairly pathetic compared, for example, to the London Observer. The quaint notion of having a public duty to cover important news was exploded long ago; now these corporations just take business decisions.