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

To: AK2004 who wrote (17291)	3/7/2003 8:17:03 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Do you think the Japanese people would have been getting a fair shake, a balance of media by which to make a fair judgment, if the Japanese ambassador walked out of the UN Security Council meeting in order to give a press conference, taking with him all of the Japanese networked media, this while the American ambassador was in the process of delivering his or her presentation. In short, the Japanese people would be deprived of hearing the American ambassador's presentation. Would that fair?

To: AK2004 who wrote (17291)	3/7/2003 8:28:43 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

I'm talking about the UN Security Council meeting. All members spoke. When it came time for the Iraqi ambassador to speak, Powell left the room, taking with him CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. Unless one were watching C-Span would not have have heard the presentation of the Iraqi ambassador, a presentation that was only 10 minutes long. It was an orchestrated and manipulative move on the part of Powell to force the American media to concentrate on him instead of the remarks of the Iraqi ambassador. My point is were the American public not being manipulated, we would have seen Powell keep the courtesy to remain in his chair and the American public would have heard the remarks of the Iraqi ambassador. Unless, of course, you believe one-sided thinking is the way to go. Do you? Should the American public have been allowed to hear Iraq's presentation to the Security Council?