At 10:32 PM 6/16/2003, Jim wrote:
Steven,
I suppose the problem is not newspapers, but those who read them.
If the vast majority of people were not prepared to believe at first
glance everything fed to them by the news media, journalists with an
agenda would be wholly frustrated in their
Steven,
I suppose the problem is not newspapers, but those who read them.
If the vast majority of people were not prepared to believe at first
glance everything fed to them by the news media, journalists with an
agenda would be wholly frustrated in their attempts to lead public
opinion.
How
It took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least
170,000 artifacts carried away by looters.
New York Times, April 13
You'd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in
1258, to find looting on this scale.
British archaeologist Eleanor
