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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (8982)	10/29/2001 1:02:41 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

"You are blaming the messenger, because you don't like the message." No, I believe the messenger needs to report the story and forget the opinion making. If the messenger was doing the job that they were suppost to be doing there would be no reason for this discussion. The nightly news has become a platform of opinion and poll watching. People, thank God, can and do get more information from other sources than CNN, Time, NBC,ABC,CBS. And again, thank God that our President has stopped the leaks and stimied the information available to the press. We do not need another Vietnam.

To: Machaon who wrote (8982)	10/29/2001 1:17:10 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

The press has not done a good job since the 50s. Those mentioned and others need taken to Afganistan and left for the Taliban. Their problem is they cannot come up with 10 minutes of war news per day and are stretching it to 24 hours. They stretch 1 fact into hours with opinions and possibilities. Most is done to incite fear to keep viewers watching the screen and listening to their rambleing

To: Machaon who wrote (8982)	10/31/2001 11:56:48 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27666

Stop us before we spread more Taliban propaganda. ABC News regularly runs Al-Jazeera video of supposedly U.S.-caused civilian casualties in Afghanistan, airing it more often by my observation than either CBS or NBC, but it’s not their fault Cokie Roberts suggested on Sunday. She blamed the spreading of the video images, which so help the Taliban cause, on the lack of access U.S. journalists are allowed by the Pentagon. ABC’s This Week opened on October 28 with Al-Jazeera video of injured Afghan kids as Sam Donaldson passed along how the Taliban claims ten civilians were killed in the particular U.S. bombing. A few minutes later, wrapping up an interview with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Roberts argued: "There’s some sense that we’re losing the propaganda war and those pictures we saw of those children at the beginning of the program have taken the place in our minds of the picture of the World Trade Center being blown up. Why not allow more press access so that the United States press can show pictures that fight the Arab press?" mediaresearch.org