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