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To: Sully- who wrote (44864)5/17/2004 2:08:17 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793681
 
News Coverage as a Weapon

I am really getting bitter about the media. I wondered, over the weekend, "Is the western media a bigger enemy in our war against terrorism than the terrorists?"

No. But it seems that way at times.



To: Sully- who wrote (44864)5/17/2004 2:08:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793681
 
no discussion of the press as a weapon of war is complete without noting how Palestinian advocates turned the image of the Israeli/Arab conflict from 5 million Jews against 300 million Arabs into one Palestinian boy with a rock against an Israeli tank, purely through selective reporting.