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Topic History of: Libya Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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JK2006
Now we see the media - unable to take as complex a view as to examine both sides - utterly condemning Gaddafi and repeating every vile adjective about him as though the other side were the heroes ("fighting for freedom and democracy") and the evil Dictator must be over thrown. Am I being cynical or am I right to despair of the media's assumption that we are all one dimensional idiots or are they right - we are incapable of understanding complexity?
JK2006
As it gets nastier and nastier, I hear reports of burnings and anarchy in Tunisia and further murders in Egypt. Protests to get freedom and democracy seem to end in more unrest, inequality, looting and killing - and the vast majority of decent human beings, unwilling to obey the media agenda to supply "a good story" by staying at home and keeping their heads down, quietly starve to death.
Jenny
Rusty wrote: Will the evacuees from Libya be asked to contribute
Only if they went against FO advice.
Rusty
Will the evacuees from Libya be asked to contribute towards the vast expense of their evacuation? It was their choice to go there presumably, lured by tax incentives etc.
Jenny
JK2006 wrote: But the media rules -
As Hugo's Quasimodo tried to mumble - 'that rings a bell'