This reminds me of the movie "Wag the Dog" where a war was created and
started by the media to distract the nation's attention from a scandal. As
a leading actor in the movie kept saying " I saw it on TV, it must be
true."
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> From: Russell Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: War & Media distortion
> Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 6:34 PM
>
> Hello again, and thanks Nicole for the long and insightful discussion
> of neocolonialism.
>
> I was watching the world news on television last night pondering
> these issues, and it was very depressing. I hadn't noticed before
> just how bad it was -- the entire 1/2 hour was taken up with stories
> about stupid men killing eachother for no good reason, sometimes with
> America coming in and threatening to kill everyone if they don't stop
> killing eachother. There were two women in the entire program -- the
> presenter, and Elizabeth Dole (the US presidential campaign got a
> mention at the end). I was thinking about Nicole's comments about media
> distortion, and I thought I would ask: is the situation really as we
> are expected to beleive it? That is, that these idiotic men started
> killing for no good reason, and America / the UN "had" to come in and
> use force to diffuse the situation. Neglecting the use of force for now
> (since some would argue that violence is NEVER called for), is it
> really the case that these wars just start up on their own, or is it
> usually the result of first world meddling?
