From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 11:38:48 MDT
spike66 wrote:
>> If I may make one general remark, not everyone that offers us
>> "facts" is our friend nor do they necessarily have the integrity of
>> the average copperhead. This seems to be a case in point -- a piece
>> of misinformation traceable back to Sadaam himself if I remember
>> correctly.
>> Ron h.
>
>
>
> This is what I was getting at with an earlier thread
> asking "what is truth?"
>
> A foreign commentator once marvelling at the fact that
> the U.S. has a free press. He asked how it would prevent
> the press from falling into the hands of our nation's
> enemies. My answer to that is simple: our nation's news
> media *are* in the hands of our enemies.
>
Care to check who the five (or is it four now) companies/very
wealthy individuals are that control almost all US media now?
There is no way that a claim the media "is in the hands of our
enemies" can fly. Check out the untold story of Desert Storm
and how thoroughly our media was shackled then.
Disinformaiton abounds on this list. Known facts are happilly
ignored and claimed not to be facts at a mere whim. It is very
disappointing.
> A multiplicity of sources is not the only answer, for
> they are contradictory and carry assumptions that we
> are not aware of. There appears to be in the Middle
> East a universal burning hatred of Jews, for whatever
> reason. The U.S. supports the Jews, so any news source
> from that region may be poisoned, even those in favor
> of Israel and the U.S.
>
It is of course not at all that simple.
> If that is the case, then we could explain what appears
> to be a general disdain for the U.S and/or U.N. as
> memetic warfare.
>
Actually you could explain a lot by simply admitting the obvious
truth that we and Israel act really badly quite often in the
region. Or are we going to ignore the 7 dozen or so UN
resolutions that Israel pays no attention to while we are
conveniently deciding what facts are legit?
- samantha
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