Dr. Rice: “Don’t use the words 'ethnic cleansing' or 'genocide'”.
This is what Dr. Rice told a high ranking Russian official in a telephone conversation yesterday or the day before.
The mythical South Ossestians are not to be seen anywhere or even talked about in human terms as to what has happen to them. Their devastated town is not recorded, there are no interviews of a dis-placed person or family from Ossestia, not even an interview with persons whom Georgia Pres. Saakashvili says are in his cabinet. We have seen those efforts by the media in the past keeping a person de-humanized but more importantly at this time and in my opinion, the power of the world media for local media outlets to not show pictures is an eye opener. Pictures are also absent on web sites which is even more disturbing. Is this propaganda machine wider spread than I imagined?
Usually by this time when a story is developing, there are pictures but as of this moment, nothing. Nada! Zilt! Curious! Our beloved Pres. Obama is gonna have a “tuff” row to hoe not only with the crazy do-nothing anti-progress lazy and ornamental Democratic Congress but also the media.
So it was listening to a press conference early this morning with a Russian diplomat and the head of the something who, by the way, continued throughout the conference pledging he was not going to blame anyone for starting the Georgian conflict. “That will come later” he repeated over and over reminiscent of the Katrina blame game.
Due to the fact a lot of media programs no longer display the name and positions of the person talking for any length of time, one is reduced to the level of reporting “hear say”. I used to be able to record the name and position of the person I was quoting but that has drastically changed. Some one will come on television now and say the most egregious of things and the only time you hear their names is when the commentator would say, “Thanks for that report, so and so” with the vocal inflection dropping when saying the name. For the past few days, 99% of my TV has been watching BBC-World. It‘s a blood pressure thing. I have developed a phobia watching even my favorites i.e., Andrea and Matthews. Oh waiter, two olives in that Martini, please.
As always,
BB
The mythical South Ossestians are not to be seen anywhere or even talked about in human terms as to what has happen to them. Their devastated town is not recorded, there are no interviews of a dis-placed person or family from Ossestia, not even an interview with persons whom Georgia Pres. Saakashvili says are in his cabinet. We have seen those efforts by the media in the past keeping a person de-humanized but more importantly at this time and in my opinion, the power of the world media for local media outlets to not show pictures is an eye opener. Pictures are also absent on web sites which is even more disturbing. Is this propaganda machine wider spread than I imagined?
Usually by this time when a story is developing, there are pictures but as of this moment, nothing. Nada! Zilt! Curious! Our beloved Pres. Obama is gonna have a “tuff” row to hoe not only with the crazy do-nothing anti-progress lazy and ornamental Democratic Congress but also the media.
So it was listening to a press conference early this morning with a Russian diplomat and the head of the something who, by the way, continued throughout the conference pledging he was not going to blame anyone for starting the Georgian conflict. “That will come later” he repeated over and over reminiscent of the Katrina blame game.
Due to the fact a lot of media programs no longer display the name and positions of the person talking for any length of time, one is reduced to the level of reporting “hear say”. I used to be able to record the name and position of the person I was quoting but that has drastically changed. Some one will come on television now and say the most egregious of things and the only time you hear their names is when the commentator would say, “Thanks for that report, so and so” with the vocal inflection dropping when saying the name. For the past few days, 99% of my TV has been watching BBC-World. It‘s a blood pressure thing. I have developed a phobia watching even my favorites i.e., Andrea and Matthews. Oh waiter, two olives in that Martini, please.
As always,
BB
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