[Imc] two-faced mass media

[David Young]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:25:31PM -0500, Chas. M. Bee wrote:
> Gotsch Tim wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all.  In case you haven't heard, the major media
> > networks will not be airing footage of Osama bin Laden
> > from the Al-Jazeera news service in Qatar.  This flies
> > in the face of a story I ran across at
> > http://news.excite.com/news/r/011012/05/television-aljazeera
> >  I wonder how execs at mass media networks can live
> > with themselves?  
> 
>    I think if I was in that unenviable position, I would have little
> choice but to quiet my inner small, still voice with the assurances from
> the feds that they have evidence of his past use of such statements to
> transmit non-contextual data to his agents.

    What could evidence of past use possibly be?  What use could it be
    to keep it secret?

>    Given even the remote possibility of such a thing, I should think
> that the ghosts of 5,000 innocent civilian dead might guide my hand.  -- CMB

    Yeah, I'll bet that the terrorists' plans are completely foiled,
    now that they cannot communicate by TV broadcast. It's not like
    there is any more certain means of communication.

    The Air Force should shoot down birds flying from Afghanistan,
    just in case they carry secret messages.

Dave

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