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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: How USA-Today Lies (1)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.025923.12321@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:59:23 GMT
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- [Following up on "How Newsweek Lies" and other previous posts]
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- "USA SNAPSHOTS -- A look at statistics that shape the nation,"
- from USA Today, Tuesday, September 8, 1992 displays a farmy
- picto-graph of "Worldwide cereal food aid (in millions of tons)" and
- tells us that "The United States is the major donor of food aid --
- mostly cereal -- in the world." That's all we are told.
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- The following responses, from Oxfam Americas report _Honduras: Why
- Farmers Go Hungry_ ; Oxfam's _Focus on El Salvador_ and the recnetly
- released _We're Number One_ tell the real story.
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- Harel Barzilai
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