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From: lrb@hpcnof.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mis-quote: "We will bury you!"
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 20:04:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 20:04:00 1985
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In looking over what I just posted, I realized that I may be coming
down too hard on the US press.  Yes it *is* true that when they get hold
of a juicy quote they *want* to believe, they will often spread it far & 
wide without checking up on its validity, simply because they want so
badly to believe that it was actually said by that person.  But in
general I believe that they *do* try to check up on the accuracy of a
controversial statement before publishing it.  And in any case, the
accuracy of our press is commendable when compared to much of the rest
of the world.  I close with 2 examples of other countries:

-China, the country with the largest population on earth, did not announce 
to their people that man had landed on the moon (for quite some time).

-In the fall of 1968, a young Russian sailor who was an acquaintance of my
brother wrote to say that his newspaper stated that earlier in the summer
NATO was poised to invade Czechoslovakia, the Czechs called on the USSR
to save them from an invasion, and the Russian tanks arrived in the nick
of time to rescue a grateful Czech people from the hands of the Americans
& W. Germans.  He wondered what my brother had read in the US papers.
(FYI, my brother wrote back what *he* had read, but never got another
letter from the sailor again.)