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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (7688)2/12/2003 8:40:21 PM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 25898
 
Great points, llmarinen. Indeed it is a lot easier to put something over on someone when there's no quick access to confirm a reality. whatever the issue.

Another great example, is in times like these I've never had the enlightenment capability to read what news organizations from all over the world are writing about, how they're similar and whatnot.

And I remember how I always wondered how it was that ABC, CBS and NBC, in the old days, always carried the same news stories with practically the same time sequence for each reporting. More, the respective reporters from each station were pretty much reporting the story the same way? "My gosh, how could that be? What's at play here" I'd wonder and then just go on with daily life.

And I remember trying to research something on the prior Gulf War and I went to my seach engine and typed in what I was looking for. But I had to stop 'cause I suddenly remembered there was no Internet back then and what I was looking for likely wouldn't be there to find.

Indeed, times have changed. And because they've changed I'm hopeful that the means by which people from all over the world communicate with each other will improve; that we'll all find there's much, much more joy to share. And that, if given time to mature, we will all become wiser and our feelings will grow and we'll better understand different cultures and ethnicities. That some day they'll be a blues club everyone will hang out in so as to sing about problems past. But this might not be possible if someone gums things up with a wreckless rendition of World War III.



To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (7688)2/13/2003 3:05:52 PM
From: Elmer Flugum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
"Earlier it was possible to flood the media with propaganda for a suitable time, plan the releases much more carefully than a regular daily soap to always start something new before the old was done with."

Well said, llmarinen.

I enjoy C-Span immensely as well, mostly live.

len