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- From: L-Bueno@cup.portal.com (Louis Alberto Bueno)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Rape After Rape After Rape
- Message-ID: <72432@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 08:14:36 PST
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- bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman) writes:
- [stuff about belgian nuns and spanish-american war omitted]
- >Your article is from the New York Times, hardly a trustworthy
- >source in my opinion. Here is a quote from an excellent book
- >I can recommend to you, "Plausible Denial" by Mark Lane (Thunder's
- >Mouth Press, New York 1991): "Ritualistically, every few years,
- >the *New York Times* ...devote pages of analysis to the recent
- >past of the CIA and conclude, with a banal predictability, that
- >while the agency had committed numerous crimes... the auspicious
- >news is that the agency is now firmly in good hands." This
- >book is chock full of similar quotes. They all have in common
- >a tendency to lead one to believe that our "free press," including
- >the *New York Times*, is not always to be trusted.
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- Funny how you use ONE single source to negate another single
- source :-) Ever heard of comparative reading? Try it sometime...
- it does the brain good. :-)
-
- Regards,
-
- --Louis
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