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To: Lane3 who wrote (41863)	5/2/2004 8:51:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793639

Karen, have you been listening to the BBC all through this? I have. Please don't tell me that I'm imagining their quite overt political bias. American triumphs are reported dryly, in almost a crest-fallen manner, while American defeats are seized upon with glee and chewed over for days. I'm hardly the only person to notice.

To: Lane3 who wrote (41863)	5/3/2004 4:28:23 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793639

You are too dismissive of the power of the media. And you are too dismissive of the political agenda behind all too many journalists & media outlets. They don't openly root for failure, but they make it clear in the obvious bias in their reporting that they do not want success in Iraq as long as Bush is still President. They over-report & hype any perceived & real negative & they grossly under- report/ignore any positives. The worst of them openly lie & distort & rarely get the proper punishment they deserve. And the general public is rarely informed of past inaccuracies that were reported. At best, they must stumble upon retractions that should be widely reported & properly corrected in context. FWIW, these guys needed the media behind them for this to work. And work it did! Funny how this guy was so prescient too. What was true for them is also true for the media.... "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, <font size=4>for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." <font size=3> Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945