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!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-milrat!brener From: brener@milrat.DEC Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: SANDANISTAN DEMOCRACY Message-ID: <3744@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 09:31:17 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3744 Posted: Wed Sep 26 09:31:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 01:05:19 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 14 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.