RE: [Leica] Was anti-war stuff, is now, gasp, "Some of my friends are Republicans"

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Well, you were right in that prior to this past weekend, the various
anti-war efforts were indeed getting short-shrift. But with the numbers
this time, the coverage changed.

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Ridings
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Subject: RE: [Leica] Was anti-war stuff, is now, gasp, "Some of my
friends are Republicans"


Well, BD, I admit, I didn't check the Globe (should have, had a friend
who worked for it 30 years ago :)).

The NYT, when I looked (on the web) was still playing things down a bit,
but I admit, when the final story came out it was better.

I'm glad to hear about the cable news coverage. I don't watch television
any more (not for any principled reason, it just works out that way).
But I know a lot of people do. Feels better :)

I just picked out some sources Chicago Tribune, was one I remember, and
went into their sites. CNN was not playing it up very much on their
site, but then again, perhaps the real transmissions were.

Live and learn :)
Daniel

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, bdcolen wrote:

> What's strange, Daniel, is how you've read "the media." My Sunday 
> Boston Globe had the world-wide demonstrations story from Saturday 
> bannered across the top of p1....and if I'm not mistaken, the NYTimes 
> also had it on page one of the Sunday paper....all the cable news 
> channels gave it endless coverage...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Ridings
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:27 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Was anti-war stuff, is now, gasp, "Some of my 
> friends are Republicans"
>
>
> > The WSJ for example, is enough to make me vomit... so I imagine 
> > Austin
>
> > might feel the same about something like the Boston Globe/NY Times. 
> > :)
>
> On the contrary ... You KNOW where the WSJ is coming from. You just 
> learn to read between the line. I've been doing this with media for 30

> years now.
>
> It was really educational to follow the american media's coverage of 
> the global demonstrations ... largest in history.
>
> They started talking about a "few thousand" here and there. Finally, 
> after a couple of days, they realized they better get out with the 
> facts. This was just too big to ignore. But the media did try and play

> it down. And now, a few days later, it is difficult to find articles, 
> whereas you can find old dusty archives on Iraq all over the place. 
> Strange.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> >
> > Jim "Leica using LIBERAL Democrat", Hemenway
> >
> > http://www.hemenway.com
> >
> >
> >
> > bdcolen wrote:
> > >
> > > Let me try to disengage here, Austin, as I consider you a friend 
> > > and
>
> > > don't want to see this deteriorate - and simply note that if 
> > > that's the impression you have, you haven't been reading the 
> > > "liberal" press very carefully for the past 18 months. ;-)
> > >
> > > B. D.
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