From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3e7c6ac8{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:3e7c28d5{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > > I didn't mean to say they were, I was trying to point out that if the
> > > world had known it would have made a big difference in attitudes
> > > about the war (at least I would believe that effect here).
> >
> > Alright. So what does that have to do with the current Iraq situation
> then?
>
> One of the things lacking in all the countries where there are large
> anti-war movements is that there have been very few news stories
> demonizing saddam.

What do you know about news stories here in Finland - or Poland, or France,
or Sweden, or any other place for that matter? You actually have no idea
what sort of news coverage I'm seeing for example.


> I have to wonder how many would have demonstrated if they had
> the kind of repetition of news about how saddam treated his people
> that we have seen here.

Well for one thing, Finnish people are not very vindictive. The general
population here does not believe bombing Baghdad to be alright just because
Saddam Hussein is an evil man.


> Propoganda does make a difference in attitudes, both false
> information or lack of certain facts can have a huge affect on
> how people perceive the happenings.

Yeppers. What really bothers me sometimes is how difficult it really is to
know which information is true and which is not. It doesn't even have to be
completely untrue, but every news item is already colored by the people who
are reporting it.


Antti Kurenniemi
(what do I know - nothing...)

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