<fopnt face=arial color=teal size=-1>Maybe it does. Journalists "of all persuasions" have been exposed as liars too often for me to put any credibility in what they report. As pictures were shown of jubilation in Bagdahd, the anchor is saying "the mood in Bagdahd was subdued" while all the while the video behind him showed exactly the opposite. I will wait for further details. Your theory doesn't explain why big three stations continue with spin as their viewership declines. The reason is they are idiologs. Business has naught to do with it.</font> -- The Philadelphia Talk Radio Politics and Opinion Forum

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Date Posted: 18:07:35 04/09/03 Wed
Author: SG (I 'd have bombed Al Jazeera myself after they showed videos of tortured POWs. Let Al Jazeera think that was the reason, true or not.)
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Subject: Maybe it does. Journalists "of all persuasions" have been exposed as liars too often for me to put any credibility in what they report. As pictures were shown of jubilation in Bagdahd, the anchor is saying "the mood in Bagdahd was subdued" while all the while the video behind him showed exactly the opposite. I will wait for further details. Your theory doesn't explain why big three stations continue with spin as their viewership declines. The reason is they are idiologs. Business has naught to do with it.
In reply to: Chris Henry 's message, "However, does this explain why our forces have twice bombed the Al Jazeera offices? Kabul, November 2001, and Baghdad, April 2003. Or the attack on the journalists' hotel in Baghdad yesterday? It's a bit naive to say "we were returning fire" when there are dozens of professional journalists from all countries and persuasions saying the opposite." on 07:09:37 04/09/03 Wed

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[> [> Chris, why so quick to second-guess and condemn the U.S. military...who are right THERE getting shot at on the front lines despite what the Iraqi Minister of Spinformation keeps saying? I heard one military commentator this week saying that given a choice between hearsay/bystander perception and the soldier in the foxhole, he's gonna believe the soldier in the foxhole. Targeting a news office seems a pretty namby-pamby target (except for SG's stated justification) in the grand scheme. (cont'd) -- Spock, 11:32:21 04/10/03 Thu (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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