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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:08 PM
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Blackout on COVERAGE of latest explosions in Iraq?
I've been watching CNN all morning. After the initial few minutes of coverage of the latest explosions, there's nothing. Nothing. Not even an update.

Is anyone seeing more?
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:10 PM
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1. I am going to check international
news. would not surprise me at all if
our "media" is on a gag order right now.
BHN
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:13 PM
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2. Guardian snippet
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:31 PM
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3. They have not reported the Shiaa/Sunni protest either..
against the US today in Baghdad. That chimpy* the uniter...



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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:32 PM
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4. KKKarl must have ordered a blackout
If the reporters in Iraq are blocked from the story, they can't report the story.

The media is CONTROLLED.

Bless the internet...otherwise, we wouldn't know half of what we do about this crooked administration.
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:36 PM
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5. All ye know, and all ye need know...
...will be dispensed by the appropriate ministry (Fox News) in due time.

Back to work, citizen, and be happy to be a delta.

Apologies for the shameless Huxley reference
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mourningdove92 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:44 PM
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6. loved the reference
no apology needed. Huxley and Orwell had some kind of magic mirror into the future...didn't they?
If you have never read Taylor Caldwells, "The Devils Advocate", this would be a good time to do so.
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:48 PM
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7. Huxley and Orwell were
Optimists.
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BeHereNow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 02:44 PM
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9. YES!
I recommended that book a year ago!
Also "Captains and the Kings"
She wrote a warning about the Trilateral Commission,
the Council on Foreign Relations, the IMF and cohorts,
ALL the usual suspects, in the intro page.
The year?
1972.
MUST READ!
BHN
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Comadreja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 01:49 PM
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8. Downed Chopper?
I never saw anything on this, either, which got through to me from ICH:



U.S. Helicopter Comes Down in Iraq - Witnesses: A U.S. helicopter came down on
Thursday south of the flashpoint Iraqi city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, witnesses said. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4597729§ion=news http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4597729§ion=news
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 03:00 PM
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10. after the 24/7 "cornered" coverage
and the initial reports of explosions today in the 'green zone'

they've dropped EVERYTHING on CNN and MSNBC

playing repeats of puff pieces. a missing baby.

dropped ALL the hysteria though.

makes ya wonder.....



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