From: "John Beamish" 

You're expecting a nation that listens to Rush Limbaugh will think for
itself.  That is a decidedly unlikely occurance.

"Phil Payne"  wrote in message
news:409CE1D5.B80EA510{at}isham-research.com...
> Back in 1972, the photograph of Kim Phuc screaming with pain after the USA
> tried to burn her alive was syndicated around the world - yet many US
> journals refused to print it.
>
> Nixon, at that time, apparently had the same denial outbreak that Shrub
has
> today:
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/28/vietnam.nixon/
>
> Now, we have not one but possibly THOUSANDS of photographs.  And we don't
> have the same syndication problems - these photographs will, over the next
> few weeks, permeate the USA.  Even people who don't have Internet access
> probably know people who have - students will return to college to find
> emails from their friends - "Have you see _this_ URL?"
>
> This has the potential to be the first major political event in the USA
> driven by "informal" media.  It's entirely possible that the
classic US
> mass media will either lose credibility entirely or have to change
> radically to meet the challenge of individuals who can transmit uncensored
> and non-partisan news dozens of time faster.
>
> --
>   Phil Payne
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