[79344] in Cypherpunks
Re: mainstream media corruption same as govt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu May 1 03:27:24 1997
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 22:40:46 -0700
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199705010033.RAA29721@netcom7.netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 05:33 PM 4/30/97 -0700, Vladimir wrote:
>the crack cocaine situation in LA is a good example of how the truth
>is buried by the media. a maverick newspaper reports something close to the
>truth and the cia-manipulated mouthpieces around the country pile on
>the journalist and the newspaper in a barrage of picks that choke the
>truth in clouds of smoke.
The main thing that puzzled me about that episode was that
everybody made such a big deal over it.
I mean, didn't _everybody_ remember that Ollie North's Contra buddies
were smuggling coke and occasionally getting caught at it?
The whole Yankee-Panamanian War was largely caused by my
liberal friends with their "Bush and Noriega in '88" bumper stickers
that George "I am not a wimp!" Bush had to distance himself from :-)
"Bush and Noriega - A _Crack_ Team!"
And then there's "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia",
for a more scholarly and thorough treatment; I think the followon book
was just named "The Politics of Heroin".
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