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To: Doc Bones who wrote (21984)	3/22/2002 10:39:36 PM
From: Doc Bones	Respond to of 281500

In fairness to the Gray Lady, the current Foreign Affairs rightly credited Thomas Friedman with bringing some of the more bizarre anti-semitic and other beliefs in the Arab countries to the Western reader. FA itself noted an editorial in al-Ahram, the leading Egyptian newspaper, saying that Americans were dropping poisoned food packages in Afghanistan and dropping them in minefields. As an American I resent that! If I'm going to go to the trouble of poisoning my food packages, I am not going to drop them in the freaking minefield! I'm going to drop the good food packages there, full of chocolate Easter bunnies and all sorts of great stuff. The poisoned ones I'm going to drop in nice open spaces close to major urban areas. Thank You, Doc@oneAmericansopinion.com

To: Doc Bones who wrote (21984)	3/23/2002 5:46:52 AM
From: Doc Bones	Respond to of 281500

To clarify, the reporting I listed on the "blood libel" in Saudi Arabia is not at all impressive. Except for the L.A. Times, it is all in editorials, not in the news. It is mostly quite recent, as the story has become better known. I have run into the same thing on immigration - the establishment press simply won't criticize third world countries or people (or immigration), leading to distorted news coverage. I'm sure they consider their motives high-minded. Maybe someone who knows the press better can describe "the rule" they use. It's a bit much for a press that sometimes runs stories damaging to the national interest, for example, because of their sacred duty to report the news, to give this stuff a free pass. Doc