From: gt6367c@prism.gatech.EDU (DEAL, DOUGLAS WAYNE)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Media Bias
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:02:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <Bw61Lx.BFH@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
>In article <71249@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6367c@prism.gatech.EDU (DEAL, DOUGLAS WAYNE) writes:
>>In article <98657@bu.edu> tesco@bumetb.bu.edu (Dances With Babes) writes:

>>Protesting against your country, outside your country is a horrible thing
>>to do.  When one protests, it is to enact change in your gov't, community,
>>or whatever.  When you protest in an area where only foreigners can see,
>>how can that be thought of as an attempt to change something.  
>>The only effect that those protests could accomplish would be show Bills
>>fellow students that he was one of them.....he hated america too. 
>
>  I'm sure that most people at Georgia Tech are not this stupid,
>  so it's unfortunate that Mr. Wayne has to drag his school's
>  reputation through the mud with his idiocy.


Again, the liberal arguements always resort to insults, as they fail to read
the posts that they respond to.  I stated that the only thing that could be
accomplished was that he would show his fellow students he was one of them.
Foreign protesters generally protest the US because they dislike it.  I was
only suggesting that Bill was trying to make a statement by protesting
that he was one of them.  Politicians do that kind of thing all the time.  
I did not mean to suggest that he hated his country.  I also suggest that how
could he embarrass his own country if he was protesting in England where 
Americans could not see him.


>
>  1.  How does it follow that protesting against US involvement
>      in the war equates to "hating" one's country?  



If you would just read, you would know that that was not what I said.

>
>  2.  To the extent that a small group of U.S. Rhodes scholars
>      protest in their host country this may attract more media
>      attention than a similar sized protest at home, and thus
>      be more effective as a protest (remember: a protest is
>      basically a publicity stunt -- you want to draw attention
>      to your cause.)  So protesting there might have been a  
>      reasonable strategy.  It may also be more embarassing to
>      the government, which adds to its impact.   Mr. Wayne appears
>      to be unable to distinguish between a country and its 
>      government.


I seriously doubt that a good portion of papers in the United States would
cover a story about a Rhode scholar protesting with a group of foreigners.
And from the news that I have read, he was protesting with Brits, not
fellow Americans like you suggest.  To point out again the fact that
you did not read my post carefully, you yanked out my middle and first name,
but failed to see my last.  My name is not Mr. Wayne, its Mr. Deal.  If I
were you, I would not attempt to challenge the intelligence of a fellow
poster, at least if you do not have adequate reading comprehension skills.
>
>
>---peter





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