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Re: Freedom from information
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Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:18:35 GMT
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> A good point, worth pondering. Sadly, there's very little unbiased media
> access available in the US, other than the Internet which lacks the
> seductive convenience of TV newschannels with their constant state of "NEWS
> ALERT."
As an aside, this letter made it into the Guardian yesterday:
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Matthew Engel says (Move over John Wayne, January 14) anti-war demos "still
failed to get reported anywhere that matters". After reports in the New York
Times failed to do justice to the protests last October in DC and other US
cities, the paper received so many angry emails, phone calls and letters that
they published another, much longer article three days later. The original
report talked about "thousands of demonstrators, fewer people ... than the
organisers had said they hoped for". This was changed to: "100,000 by police
estimates and 200,000 by organisers' ... the turnout startled even organisers,
who had taken out permits for 20,000 marchers."
Many Americans read the Guardian online because it gives more balanced coverage
of events here than our own media. Next weekend even more people are set to
demonstrate against the war - I am hoping to read about it in the Guardian.
Melissa Herman
Miami Beach, Florida
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Matthew Engal's test is here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,874311,00.html
The truth is out there:
http://www.guardian.co.uk
;)
Scott A
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