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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (10233)	3/26/2003 5:06:32 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Speaking of mainstream press, check out the name of the Al Jazeera spokesman in this article.... Al-Jazeera Calls on U.S. to Ensure Free Press By Merissa Marr, European Media Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Banned on Wall Street and wiped off the Internet, Arab news channel al-Jazeera defended its controversial coverage of the Iraq (news - web sites) war on Wednesday and demanded the United States come to its aid in the name of a free press. Al-Jazeera, which angered the United States by showing footage of dead and captured American soldiers, said it was deeply concerned after two of its reporters were banned from the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) and its Web sites were hacked. "There has to be a national effort to protect the freedom of the press even more," said al-Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout. ..... story.news.yahoo.com

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (10233)	3/26/2003 5:44:46 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

And you think your going to get "good" information from the main stream press? While I think the press briefings don't actually "lie" - I think they withhold a lot of information. And part of withholding is not correcting rumors unless they are just too blatant. A lot of responsibility falls with the questions that reporters ask - such as focusing on and emphasizing that 22 of our guys have been killed and making it sound like the end of the world. Or harping on one stray missle that went into Iran or some neighborhood. These things happen in war. It's unfortunate. I like the attitude that our military has now. In WWII, if there was a machine gun nest in a building, they exchanged gunfire until one side got killed. Blowing a building to smithereens before one of our guys get hurt is a very reasonable thing to do.