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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 08:05:58 EST
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I am pretty disgusted with the TV coverage of the aftermath of the raid
on Libya.  They spend 99%+ of their time showing Libyan supplied footage
and inteviewing people who would obviously be opposed to the raid, such
as relative of current hostages.  It seems that, other than the initial
press conference by the Secretaries of Defense and State, even the most
obvious arguments in favor of the administration, such as the argument
that we differ from the Libyans in that our raid tried to avoid civilian
casualties while the terrorism run the the Libyans tried to maximize
civiliam casulaties, get zero air time.  I think that one could
reasonably be opposed to such slanted coverage regardless of whether you
thought the US raid was, on balance, a good idea or not.  It is not even
that I would mind slanted coverage, it is the essentially total shut out
of any pro US administration views ...
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