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From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Is the news media really that stupid?
Message-ID: <787@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Dec 88 14:45:22 GMT
Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, ULondon E1-4NS
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>	Whenever I have attended any event covered by the news
>	media, their covering of the story has been materially
>	different from what I have seen.
>
One exception: the Economist's coverage of the Farrakhan [sp?]
in LA fiasco.  Let's _not get into a dsicussion of whether (or
how much) he's anti-Semitic, but _if his speech there was anti-
Semitic, it was so in a vastly different way from the way it 
was reported by TV, radio, and the two Times.  And only the  E.

got the centralpoint, which is that the guy's looney.  He got
from the American negros as the Chosen People to underarm deodorant
brands in fifteen minutes.  And he's a hell of an impressive speaker,
better than anyone but ol Ron Himself.

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