RE: CNN: All the news that we see fit to print

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Exactly! Heck, 1400 citizens NATIONWIDE is less than 1/10 of 1% (5000) of
Bahgdad population! That is success by any reasonable measure. And less than
200 casulties of over 300,000 troops is also less than 1/10 of 1%. (As far
as Iraqi troops...they higher the number the better...have we heard any
numbers? What is the ratio of military to civilian kills?)

I think the mentality of ZERO tolerance of any death in war is quite
unrealistic, as is that mentality that there is NO circumstance under which
WAR is a warrented response.

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> Billings
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:46 PM
> To: RadioTony@aol.com; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org; Aaron Read
> Subject: Re: CNN: All the news that we see fit to print
>
>
> > At 07:30 PM 4/11/2003 -0400, RadioTony@aol.com wrote:
> > >It was nice to see that I wasn't the only one critical about what the
> > >networks have been ignoring. However, the
> > >question is this: Why is it okay for the news to ignore thousands of
> Iraqi
> > >civilian deaths/injuries but it is NOT
> > >okay that CNN ignored Hussein's brutal regime to keep a competive edge?
> As
> > >a journalist and broadcaster, this seems
> > >hypocritical to me.
>
> I just saw an Arab professor at a US university interviewed.  He was
> strongly anti-war and he said that experts estimate that 1400 Iraqi
> civilians have been killed so far in the war.  If that number is anywhere
> close to correct, the media should be playing up how few
> civilians have been
> killed.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>