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f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:

> In article <NT05VB1w165w@netlink.cts.com>, galan@netlink.cts.com (Greg Gross)
> > f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
> 
> [deleted]
> 
> >> From reports I've picked up over shortwave, the situation is extremely
> >> serious with human rights down the drain for the Moslem population.
> >> The reports of extreme brutality are matched only by the lack of reports
> >> on the situation in this country's controlled media.
> >> 
> >> -Joe Gaut 
> >>  
> > 
> > 
> > whenever someone doesn't see prominent play given to some story of 
> > particular interest to *them,* someone narly automaticaly assumes that 
> > some sort of conspiracy is involved.
> > 
> > I wonder who is "controlling" the media to block publication of stories 
> > about Kashmir...? This is ridiculous, but I know such suggestions will 
> > continue, almost invariably made by people who don't have even half a 
> > clue about how story decisions are made, or how stories are obtained in 
> > the first place.
> > G.
> > 
> > --
> > Gregory Alan Gross      Welcome to life, where no good deed goes unpunished
> 
> 
> Tell them at the Kashmiri border that you are an American free lance
> journalist and see how far into the country you get.  Maybe you can do
> better than the respected journalist, whose first hand report I heard,
> who declared himself a tourist and feared for his safety if discovered
> the whole time he was there.  Stories in Kashmir are obtained a bit
> differently in Kashmir these days than in San Diego.


That stories are obtained differently in Kashmir, I have no doubt. That 
trying to obtain stories at *all* in Kashmir is difficult at best, I have 
no doubt.

what I was responding to was the suggestion that the U.S. press was 
somewhat being manipulated to disregard events in Kashmir. That's what 
goes through my mind when someone refers to a "controlled" press. the 
kind of restrictions you cite are not uncommon around the world when 
someone wants to hide something. It's a major test of ingenuity and nerve 
to break through those barriers, get to the truth and bring it out.
G.

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