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To: Skywatcher who wrote (451933)	9/3/2003 1:32:23 AM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Judges need to do sentencing in Calif. Everyone knows Calif. people are too ignorant to serve on juries. That's all we need is a bunch of OJ Simpson's running around because of jury nullification resulting from pure and plain gross ignorance.>> lasvegassun.com

To: Skywatcher who wrote (451933)	9/3/2003 6:58:11 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769669

THE LIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE: PR WATCH: THE PERFECT STORM opendemocracy.net "If the first Iraq war of 1991 was dubbed Desert Storm , the second might be called Perfect Storm," writes Lance Bennett, professor of political science at University of Washington. "The run-up to the 2003 war witnessed an extraordinary convergence of factors that produced near-perfect journalistic participation in government propaganda operations. ... On a scale from one to ten -- if 'one' is rigorously sceptical and 'ten' supine -- Perfect Storm scored ten out of ten, far exceeding the already impressive levels of press complicity achieved in the first Iraq war. ... This time, the level of mediated public deliberation was so diminished as to make the preponderance of journalism little more than an instrumental extension -- a sort of propaganda helper -- of the strategic communication goals of the administration. With few notable exceptions, the press took a pass on its fourth estate prerogatives. Posing the hard questions, testing the administrations logic and execution at every point, remaining sceptical -- all this was drowned in a sea of waving flags and gung-ho celebrations of military technology." Bennett itemizes the "top ten factors that created this perfect propaganda storm," which include "9/11 happened," "Master scripting and directing by Karl Rove," and "The Fox Effect." SOURCE: OpenDemocracy.net, August 29, 2003