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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Selective reporting
Message-ID: <216@loral.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 16:38:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  2 16:38:36 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jul-84 00:54:50 EDT
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	This is from the Wall Street Journal, 2 July 84, and reprinted
without permission:

	"We've been reading much about Salvadoran Roberto D'Aubuisson
'who has been linked to (right-wing) assasination squads.'  We propose
a similar style change: Konstantin Chernenko, who has been linked to
the shooting of the Pope."

Love it!

While we're on the subject of the news media's selective emphasis,
notice how Louis Farrakhan's comments were, for the most part, referred
to as 'controversial statements' in the press, but James Watt's gaffe
was quoted exactly in the news every night from the time it was made
until he resigned?

Hmmmm...

(The above does not necessarily imply my support for either
D'Aubuisson or Watt, but refers to reporting on them.)
-- 
Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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