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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: re: Death to baby killers, NOW!
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 11:31:41 EST
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Again to respond to Bill Tannenbaum's replies to my criticism
of the media's coverage of "terrorism":
> ---
> > Yes, I think we *must* oppose terrorism and the massacre of
> > innocent civilians anywhere it occurs.  Whether Libya was behind
> > the latest bombings there is no doubt that they have provided
> > support for terrorist organizations.  But it is the grossest hypocrisy
> > to say that it is *wrong* for Libya to support terrorists but
> > perfectly acceptable for *us* to do so.  Moreover it is an
> > incredible bias on the part of the media to *fail to even mention
> > this hypocrisy*!  When Pinochet bombs his enemy on the streets of
> > Washington, D.C. this is just as *wrong* as Khaddafy shooting his
> > enemies on the streets of London.  But which hits the headlines
> > as "exported terrorism"?
> ----
> Goddamn it, Tim.  You either have a short memory or are deliberately
> lying.  The killing of Orlando Letelier made big, big news.  Pinochet
> was portrayed in the news (perhaps accurately) as a monster.  The
> widespread disappearance of his opponents in Chile was given wide
> coverage.
 
Are you going to tell me, Bill, that the assassination of Orlando Letelier
was on the headlines and the TV news for weeks?  That is news to me.
Certainly the initial incident was covered briefly for a day.
But I got absolutely exhausted at the coverage of the Achille Lauro
incident for not just a day or days but *weeks* while there was not a
single report on bombings in El Salvador or contra's murders in Nicaragua.

Admittedly the killing of Letelier was somewhat different since he
was an admitted opponent of Pinochet's dictatorship.  But then, how
about the journalist whose brother "disappeared" in Guatemala and was
last seen in a military helicopter? His brother has been to the State Dept.
repeatedly trying to get them to pursue the case to no avail.
Has this case been in the headlines for weeks? Of course not.
It was in the back pages of the New York Times once.
 
   tim sevener   whuxn!orb