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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Despite media, belief in WMD and Iraq - Al Qaeda links
     persist -PRNewswire - 21April 2004 (Julie-ann Davies)
  2. [US] Editorial Pages and the Case for War - Columbia
     Journalism Review - March/April 2004 (Julie-ann Davies)
  3. FW Most recent report about child victims of war (LINDA LEMON)

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:35:03 +0100
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Media-watch] Despite media, belief in WMD and Iraq - Al
 Qaeda links persist -PRNewswire - 21April 2004
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From: "Mark and Andrea" <megandmark at tiscali.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: [Media-watch] Despite media,belief in WMD and Iraq - Al Qaeda
links persist -PRNewswire - 21April 2004

> It's worth adding that this poll is American. Does anyone have access to
> similar data for Britain

Sorry, I should have said. There is a March 2004 Pew Research Center poll
contrasting British and American views about whether politicians lied about
WMD or were misled. Some of the other data is also quite interesting.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=206

Further detail from the same poll at:

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=796

Unfortunately there is nothing in the survey on  the alleged Al Qaeda links.

Julie-ann

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:59:00 +0100
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Media-watch] [US] Editorial Pages and the Case for War -
 Columbia Journalism Review - March/April 2004
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THE [US] EDITORIAL PAGES AND THE CASE FOR WAR
Did our leading newspapers set too low a bar for a preemptive attack?

By Chris Mooney

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/2/mooney-war.asp

On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his now
infamous presentation to the United Nations concerning Iraq's alleged
weapons of mass destruction and its ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network.
At the time, many journalists, members of Congress, and key Security Council
nations remained unconvinced of the necessity of invading Iraq. Laced with
declassified satellite imagery, communications intercepts, and information
gleaned from Iraqi defectors, Powell's speech sought to bolster the Bush
administration's case for war by demonstrating an "accumulation of facts and
disturbing patterns of behavior" on Iraq's part. And it enjoyed a strikingly
warm reception from one key U.S. audience: the editorial page writers of
major newspapers.
"Irrefutable," declared The Washington Post. Powell "may not have produced a
'smoking gun,'" added The New York Times, but his speech left "little
question that Mr. Hussein had tried hard to conceal one." Similar
assessments came from four other editorial pages that cjr chose to examine -
the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street
Journal. Many foreign papers viewed Powell's presentation more skeptically,
but the endorsements from these six leading domestic editorial boards - four
of which would ultimately support the war - strengthened Bush's hand
considerably. "If and when the administration gets editorial support from
the elite media, it's just about a done deal, because the public will fall
in line," says David Domke, a professor of communication at the University
of Washington in Seattle who has studied editorial page response to 9/11 and
the Iraq war.

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:40:55 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
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COLDTYPE.NET / April 22

Don't miss Jo Wilding's second eye-witness account of what's really
happening in Fallujah, Iraq, in our second 24-page report from the
frontlines . . .

Fallujah: April 17, 2004  KIDNAPPED

³My instinct tells me I¹m going to be OK. Still my mind wanders to the
question of whether they¹ll shoot us against a wall or just open fire in the
room, whether they¹ll take us out one by one or we¹ll all be killed
together, whether they¹ll save the bullets and cut our throats, how long it
hurts for when you¹re shot, if it¹s instantly over or if there¹s some echo
of the agony of the metal ripping through your flesh after your life is gone
Š But what I tell myself is this: I can¹t change the course of this at the
moment and if they do point a rifle at me or hold a knife to my throat and I
know it¹s the last moment of my life then for sure there¹s nothing I can do
then I¹m determined not to beg or flinch because I was right to come to
Falluja and to try to evacuate people and get supplies to the hospitals and
to die for trying to do that isn¹t ideal but it¹s OK.²

Download Jo Wilding's report at: http://www.coldtype.net

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