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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear List-members,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is just a swift note to say that I've had no
messages tonight from media-watch, and, presumably, you haven't had any
either.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If there's any value whatever in the list, it's in
the knowledge that other folk, wherever they might be, are are scared and
appalled by what's going on as you are. It might not always be possible to
express that horror by citing 'journalistic', 'accredited' sources, and given
what's happened today, many might feel that dissent of any kind is now dangerous
- even when journalists are murdered (as the Pentagon had promised they would
be) the Beeb refuses to acknowledge the nature of the assault on their own
employees and their colleagues. What chance have we ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm writing this short message because I'm
half-pished and don't want to watch any more News 24, listen to any more
Five-Live, waiting for 'evidence' of the obvious media-bias we get hammered into
us day after day. Anyone interested enough in what's going on right now to even
get involved with this list must know that we're on the sticky end of a huge
disinformation exercise and that we're all, as a result, nailing our colours to
a mast which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with truth/justice and
similarly nebulous concepts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, let's stay aware and watch out for 'obvious'
lies and disinformation. Yes, let's scroll back through data-bases to find
cast-iorn evidence that so-and-so was lying. Yes, let's point towards some vague
explanation of what might possibly underpin this whole horror...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But please, please, let's all of us be aware that,
at some point - and it will differ for everyone - sitting on your arse watching
it all happen is simply not enough. And when enough folk realise that and start
to act upon it, <U>that's</U> when the list really will become
interesting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Respectfully,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ian Brotherhood</FONT></DIV>
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