Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:36:13 -0500
From: Christina Sharpe <christina.sharpe-AT-tufts.edu>
Subject: Re: Al-Jazeera tells the truth .. blah blah...


Roaxana,

The line "My station tells the truth aboout the war" is the title of the 
article NOT a statement from me.  

Christina

Quoting Roxtica-AT-aol.com:

> Christina,
> 
> While you may be consumed with which station broadcasts the news better,,, I
> 
> sit and wonder if you have your heart straight.  I go with Margaret Trawick 
> from her statement below, that the war in "itself is an outrage and 
> obscenity."  Thus, those who gloat on who can report the better side of the 
> story have become unethical in what the purpose of their job is.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Roxana 
> Los Angeles
> 
> 
> Subj:   Re: Robert Fisk: 'It was an outrage, an obscenity'  
> Date:   3/27/03 1:28:07 AM Pacific Standard Time    
> From:   <A HREF="mailto:trawick-AT-clear.net.nz">trawick-AT-clear.net.nz</A>    
> Reply-to:   <A
> HREF="mailto:postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu">
postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu</A>
> 
> To: <A
> HREF="mailto:postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu">
postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu</A>
> 
> Sent from the Internet (Details)    
>     
> 
> 
> Ly Chong Thong Jalao is right.  Both sides are blaming each other, and both
> sides are trying to drag us into their propaganda war, and to a certain
> extent they both have succeeded. If we must draw lines, let us draw them
> differently from how we are told.  George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, with
> their respective cronies, are on the same side. Everyone who enjoys this
> spectacle is on that same side. Pretty much the whole rest of the world is
> on the other side. There, I have drawn a line.  The war itself is an outrage
> and an obscenity, and bickering over who is to blame for what incident is
> yet another obscenity, with a self-satisfied smirk on its face.
> 
> Margaret Trawick
> 





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