Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-milrat!brener From: brener@milrat.DEC Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: gagging left and right Message-ID: <3908@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 16:34:31 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3908 Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:34:31 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 05:46:17 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 15 >dec-milrat!brener responded to the effect that you can't always believe >anyone about numbers of demonsrators, including the AP While that may be true, it certainly wasn't the focus of my arguement. Afterwards i explained how a woman i know who had been living there for a while attended a Good Friday Parade in Managua, and when it hit the press here it was billed as an Anti-Sandinista rally. She was shocked as she knew that this was a manipulative fabrication by the press designed to rally support for Anti-Sandinista sentiment in the U.S.. To call this irresponsible would be an understatement. My point was that for intended purpose the press is a powerful means of propaganda that can alter the facts, and obviously has. steve b