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Re: [OM] [OT] Afganistan thinking

Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Afganistan thinking
From: "Tom A. Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:16:51 -0400
On Sunday, September 16, 2001 at 11:16, Jay Maynard <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on "Re: [OM] [OT] Afganistan thinking," saying..

> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:47:08AM +0100, Chris Barker wrote:
> > And I hope that the news media in the USA is providing an objective 
> > view of the rest of the world rather than a populist or jingoistic 
> > one.
> 
> Well, we're not seeing the Palestinians dancing in the streets any
> more...because the Palestinian authorities are censoring those images at
> gunpoint, even resorting to kidnapping one reporter's wife and threatening
> to shoot her if he reports any more about the celebrations.
> 
> Yeah, Americans like me are the only hotheads around. Pfaugh.

Not hotheads. Part scared, part ashamed, 100% media managers.

Tom
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