> From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I try to balance Green zone reports with reports > > from the Red Zones. > > Well, you have to ask yourself how you feel about > treating the Arab press as reliable. Do you, for > example, believe that the entire war in Iraq is a > Jewish conspiracy launched by sinister "neocons" who > are actually pawns of the state of Israel? That > would, after all, be the standard story of the war as > reported in the Arab press. I tend to trust other > media just a tiny bit more... >
I think most of us wordly-wise enough to take most of our media with a good dash of salt. Anyway, we all tend to believe what we like and not believe what we don't, in regard to opinions/rumours/slants expressed in the press. My real concern is when facts are wrong, or, as you point out, things are just never reported. Do you think much of the media, be it Arab, American, Indian etc, actually lies about facts? Is there some source of great truth we can check them against, and where is it? Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
