Monday, February 17, 2003

PROPAGANDA

Indymedia: CNN changing words of Blix's address.
Notice any difference between versions? CNN's is missing close 900 words on this - all of them having to do with Blix's refutations of P's "smoking gun." CNN also goes well out of their way to change the meaning of a few paragraphs. Example:
Original:
Not least against this background, a letter of 12 February from Iraq's National Monitoring Directorate may be irrelevant. It presents a list of 83 names of participants "in the unilateral destruction in the chemical field, which took place in the summer of 1991". As the absence of adequate evidence of that destruction has been and remains an important reason why quantities of chemicals have been deemed "unaccounted for", the presentation of a list of persons who can be interviewed about the actions appears useful and pertains to cooperation on substance.

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