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To: Sam who wrote (46057)	5/21/2004 11:27:33 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

That isn't to "excuse" the media, they have an important role to play and ought to play it. But govts have a responsibility too. Focusing on the media without including culpability of govts is wrong. Yes and no. Governments often have competing interests and considerations. For example, I have no doubt that oil from Saudi Arabia has played a part in the government's muted reaction to Saudi human rights abuses. Is this right or can it be excused as the balancing of many considerations? The media doesn't have these kinds of things to consider. It can focus and emphasize as it sees fit. And there is no doubt that for some reason the Arab-on-Arab human rights abuses have not drawn the media's interest in any manner commensurate with the way the media focuses on Western abuses, such as AG. Why? A few thoughts. It is not profitable because the populace at large doesn't seem to really care. Arab-on-Arab human rights abuses do not provide the media with grist for its agenda's political mill. Such abuses embarrass no one. The don't cause politicians to suffer. Reporting them does not do much to spread the media's influence, so the media does not bother.

To: Sam who wrote (46057)	5/21/2004 12:50:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793955

As Peter Galbraith wrote in his recent article in the NYRB, the Reagan admin not only expressed no outrage over Saddam gassing Kurds, they studiously tried to ignore it. Notice, Saddam gassed the Kurds, the whole Arab world thought that was just fine, the US media didn't care very much, and the only outrage you can summon is that the Reagan administration, following the needs of realpolitik at the time (Iran was a much bigger problem) tried to ignore it too. In short, nobody else is to blame, the only direction to point our outrage is - America! Hello? hello? Can you see why this reaction is part of the problem? Why aren't you pointing your outrage at Saddam, the one who deserves it? Why isn't the world media?