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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (94560)	4/18/2003 1:35:45 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Revisionists?(EOM)

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (94560)	4/18/2003 7:21:33 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Here's another detail that caught my eye: [Re: Jenin] At the time of those events the Boston Globe (understand : "responsible mainstream journalism") put a front page photo of a "Palestinian youth erecting a tent on the ruins of Jenin". I'm not making this up... as if anyone was "living in tents" on that rubble. I am somewhat alert to this and see this kind of nonsense all the time. You'll be pleased to know that one of the topics always discussed in French "cours de français" at their 2 year college level, is interpreting misleading photojournalism and spin in the media. When I was learning the language I studied out of a couple of the French college level books of that type (Français pour le BTS, etc) to build my command of the language. In fact, even at the lycée level, this kind of thing is widely discussed and students are required to write reports on the subject, at least in the schools there that have not become totally dysfunctional (housing projects.) By my observation, French journalists are generally far more biased against the US than the most left leaning mainstream media here, so I have to ask myself, "who's kidding who" based on what they actually teach.