On Saturday, April 24, 1999 at 23:26:55 (-0500) Ken Hanly writes:
>...
>Robin Cook apparently bristles at the idea that NATO is engaged in a
>counter-propaganda campaign. He claims that NATO is only interested in
>getting the truth to the Serbian people. Is he an actor or what? ...
Alex Cockburn had a good bit on truth and history during wartime
several years ago:
Journalism annuls history, never more so than in war, where it
promotes a depthless present, most tragicomically in television
"coverage," the reporters --- actors in fact --- having mostly as
little relationship to reality as the Greek chorus in the
*Agamemnon* debating among themselves what Clytemnestra is up to
("Is that a noise I hear?") as she hacks the King to death.
---Alexander Cockburn, *The Nation*, February 18, 1991
>I include a piece on the reaction of journalists. It doesn't seem to
>be front page news.
Very interesting piece. Could you please just send the URL for it
next time, instead of attaching it?
Thanks.
Bill
