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From: brener@milrat.DEC
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: SANDANISTAN DEMOCRACY
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Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 09:31:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 09:31:17 1984
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It's hard to believe what you read in the press concerning such governments
as the Sandanistas. The press is very pro-capitalist, after all they are
certainly big-business, very often multi-national and must favorably satisfy
their advertisers ( i.e. the multinationals). For example, a friend of mine
was in Nicaragua observing a Good Friday parade, it was billed in the (Cal-
ifornaian) press as as Anti-Sandinista rally, needless to say they new it was
an intentional distortion. Two other friends went to the past May Day Parade 
in Managua where they were surrounded by 30,000 enthusiastic supporters (ac-
cording to them), this was however reported in TIME magazine as 4000 
unenthusiastic supporters. The press ritually distorts the truth to promote
its ideology, and to think that they are in the business to provide the
average citizen with the truth is simply naive. When hoses are turned on
protesters in Poland it is billed as a cowardly terrorist action, but when
another massacre happens in Guatemala barely a peep is heard.