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Eric Stewart wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> Attention Iraq activists and researchers:
>
> The article below is an interesting look into the world of Public
> Relations (PR), the mainstream media, and the manufacture of America's
> blood lust for Iraq. The article is taken from the 3 feb. 99 issue of
> Eat the State! (Vol. 3, Issue #20), a Seattle-based forum for
> anti-authoritarian political opinion & humor. If you are interested in
> contacting Eat the State, they can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Yours in the struggle, Erik Gustafson, EPIC
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>
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> The obvious reasons the U.S. wants to crush Iraq is to control the flow
> of oil. Does the oil industry influence news coverage of Iraq (or for
> that matter any other oil producing country like, say, Nigeria, which
> we're now told is becoming more open to dissent)? They might if they had
> a pipeline to the boardrooms--and as it turns out, they do. The New York
> Times has a director who also sits on the board at Texaco. At Times
> Mirror you can find a director from Amoco. Ashland is represented at the
> Washington Post. Phillips Petroleum has a director at Knight-Ridder.
> Meanwhile Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and owner of USA
> Today, has a director from du Pont, which technically isn't an oil
> company, but you'd be hard pressed to find many of their products that
> aren't made from petroleum.
>
> The same holds true on the broadcast side. Mobil and Chevron
> representatives sit on the board at Time Warner, which owns CNN and Time
> Magazine. CBS has directors from Ashland and Sunoco. Exxon has someone
> on the board at NBC, as does Goodyear, whose tires are made of synthetic
> rubber which is made from oil.
>
The fact that certain companies that use a lot of oil have directors
who also serve on the boards of media companies would seem to me to
cause those media companies to favor the lifting of sanction. Would
these companies not benefit from a greater supply of oil and thus a
lower price for a raw material necessary for the production of their products?
Howard Davis
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