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On 31 Mar 2003 at 10:19, Lucky Green wrote:
> I am currently in Europe and while I had very little time to
> watch TV, I indulged myself last night for a few hours. The
> UK stations are as worthless at the US stations: all fluffy
> propaganda all the time.
BBC says the west is losing -- on the grounds that the most
dramatic advance in history left the coalition forces over
extended. Sounds to me more like Baathist propaganda than
Pentagon propoganda.
> When a news station uses the phrase "the Iraqi leadership
> alleges" (that a US helicopter has been shot down) while the
> screen shows close-ups of the downed helicopter, you know
> that you might as well listen to the official propaganda
> station.
It seems likely that the Iraqi leadership is recycling old
pictures of a previously downed (or crashed) copter as a newly
downed copter..
Indeed, this "He said, she said" approach, which treats US
reports and Iraqi reports as equally credible, seems to me like
Baathist propaganda, like anti western bias.
> But even just watching mainstream non-English language news
> in Europe it becomes pretty obvious from which corner the
> propaganda is emanating.
When the BBC announces the west is losing, it is indeed obvious
from which corner the propaganda is emanating.
It seems to me you are falling into the Chomskyite fallacy "If
even the New York Times reports the kulaks are reasonably
happy, then the truth must be utopia"
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James A. Donald
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