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2007-12-03 Afghanistan

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-12-03 12:29|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 See, here's the game that the media plays that I absolutely hate. You report civilian casualties ... and later that turns out to be false. Then you report more civilian casualties and later that one turns out to also be false or exaggerated. Lather rinse repeat a few times.

Now you change your angle and report on the growing number of reports of civilian casualties taking great pains to NOT mention that they are almost all false. So the angle changes from the number of civilian casualties to the number of REPORTS of civilian casualties.

Let there be no mistake, our news media are staffed with professional political propagandists.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-12-03 14:12|| 2007-12-03 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, he could just buy the poppy crop and solve the problem.

Oh, wait, wrong Gates.

Posted by KBK 2007-12-03 17:31|| 2007-12-03 17:31|| Front Page Top

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