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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya and TV coverage
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Date: Wed, 23-Apr-86 04:12:05 EST
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In article <7404@cca.UUCP> dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake) writes:
>I am pretty disgusted with the TV coverage of the aftermath of the raid
>on Libya....                                 ... 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 ...

I think all the media is interested in is making money.  If it's more
fascinating to the public to show ranting and raving Libyans, as opposed
to a boring interview with G Schultz, then that's what's going to get
shown on TV.  As it is, most of the footage angers most Americans, and
does not convince them that Reagan is a loonie.

If you were correct, the media will carefully avoid showing any more
results of terrorist attacks on Americans.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720