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Bush Envoy Urged to Look at Cory Report
Dear Editor
Perhaps President Bush's special envoy to Northern Ireland, Mitchell
Reiss, should have a look at the Cory Report (and the Steven's Report,
the Patton Report, the Saville inquiry and the numerous other reports and
broadcasts by the BBC, RTE and Panarama) on British state-sponsored terrorism
and collusion by security forces with loyalist paramilitaries in the murders
of innocent people before accusing Sinn Fein of "massive untruths" about
policing in Northern Ireland and before pressuring anyone to join the overwhelmingly
discredited RUC/PSNI.
Of the Sinn Féin position advertisement on policing that ran
in the New York Times on March 15, Reiss said: "At best it was enormously
misleading, at worst it was untruthful." He also said he would provide
a point by point rebuttal to the ad. That was almost three weeks ago, and
Reiss has offered no comment.
What will he and other Bush administrator's have to say on Trimble's
remarks below? Will they again take up the Brit/unionist/loyalist line?
Will they again make embarrassingly shallow remarks criticizing the largest
nationalist party in the North? Will they again offer no evidence for their
ridiculous blather? Will they again side with the conservatives? Birds
of a feather?
Fishwood1@aol.com
Michael Moore
May 5, 2004
Dear Editor:
I recently learned of the decision by the Walt Disney Company to to
block its own film company, Miramax, from distributing a new documentary
by Michael Moore, "Fahrenheit 911". Disney executives reportedly made their
decision because they felt the film was too partisan. The documentary traces
the links between the Bush family and prominent Saudi Arabian families.
Not everyone agrees with Michael Moore's politics. And this documentary
certainly is controversial. But no corporation should have the right to
tell me what films I can see. Disney has this power because it owns ABC,
film studios, TV and radio stations, and cable channels. I am concerned
that this is yet another example of the dangers of media consolidation,
as corporations decide what people should and shouldn't see.
There are other examples. Last week, Sinclair Broadcasting decided that
"Nightline's" tribute to the dead U.S. soldiers in Iraq was too partisan,
and pulled the program from its ABC affiliates. What will be the next issue
too controversial for us to see?
Congress must act to stop the growth of giant media corporations that
can control our access to information and entertainment. Call your member
of Congress and ask him or her to prevent the growing concentration of
the media.
Sincerely,
Bob McKiernan
Milwaukee, WI
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