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Sunday, May 8, 2005

The Twist of News

News is a peculiar animal. Depending on where one lives, a factual event or happening can be viewed as a spectacular victory or a crushing defeat, a spectacle which causes awe or an episode that engenders disgust.

Here's but one example. After the recent elections in England, the US press trumpeted that Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party scored a smashing win. If, however, you were to read of this election in almost any newspaper in any other part of the world, Blair & his boys merely eked out a victory.

In fact, while the mainstream US press continues to speak of Blair's "win" in glowing terms, the rest of the world is running headlines which tell of calls for Blair to resign after such a POOR showing (i.e., 63% voted AGAINST Blair).

I wonder if the mainstream US media will pick up on the REAL story?

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