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To: Ilaine who wrote (96876)	4/30/2003 4:41:52 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We understand it, but you have set the matter up very well. People are taught lies by their governments because it is convenient to do so. If you are resolutely determined to believe lies, no power on earth can stop you. The problem we have now is that we deal with people that have been conditioned to the assumption that everything in the media is a lie. It's hard for people that have always had access to free media to understand this process. When I first arrived in the Philippines, Marcos was in his prime. There were 3 newspapers in the country, and they all carried the same stories, word for word, under different bylines. There was also an unbelievably effective grapevine, and that's what people believed. Even now, news from the grapevine is granted greater credence than news from any media outlet, Philipine or international. I expect that we're facing a similar situation in Iraq. The problem is less that the grapevine lies as that the grapevine distorts (our media do the same, of course), and the distortion is uncontrollable. With a little distortion, incidents like the ones at Fallujah can start looking even uglier than they already are.