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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (528744)	1/24/2004 6:49:05 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm the originator of SI's DON'T START THE WAR thread and the Stop the War thread. Both of those thread headers were, in effect, a press service. Each day I searched national and international media seeking news stories that fell within the respective categories I had estasblished on the thread. It was through this searching that I discovered that site, and from time to time I would visit it. It led readers, for example, to the reporting of newspaper circulations in America of 50,000 or less, as well as the washingtonpost.com and nyt.com. I was amazed when they censored the site as all it really was, was a news service. I suspect the authorities might have feared that the site might release some kind of a code and, thus, that's the reason why it was removed. And it is because I did this searching that I back up my belief that America's media became one of the greatest casualties of this war. For example, the Powell plagiarism story became known in America only through the back door, not the front pages as with the international press. America's media failed to report at all the fact the US got caught spying on UN Security Council member homes and offices during the great resolution debates. And even today there's a fullscale civil war ongoing in Iraq but we're getting a somewhat sanitized version of this. I urge all to compare what you learn from America's media with what is being told in the international media. What's the harm of having such a comparative. Below is the link, if you click some of the mid-to-lower references you'll find that those links lead you to multiple links. Subject 53789 Subject 53564