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From: brener@milrat.DEC
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Subject: gagging left and right
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 16:34:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:34:31 1984
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>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