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From: holt@parsec.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Grenada: The Rolling Lies - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 22:31:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 22:31:48 1983
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parsec!holt    Nov  4 13:36:00 1983

to Tim Sevener,

    While not disagreeing with your contention that reporters should have
been able to report from Grenada the following 2 days after the invasion,
I do find fault with your comparison of "D Day" and this event.  The
communication facilities available on D Day are not nearly as instantaneous
as those available today.  Thus, while reporters accompanied the soldiers
on D Day, they did not have any means to report "live" to the home viewing
audiance and unwittingly to the "enemy".  Today reporters do have this 
capability or very close to it, and it was this that should have prompted
the DOD to keep reporters from covering the initial invasion.

    IT IS a serious problem that reporters were kept from the scene after
the advantage of "suprise" was gone.  It makes one wonder...........
After all, 1984 is only 2 months away..........

				Dave Holt
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