Re: Blaming

From: Douglas Brooker (dbrooker@clara.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 20:50:30 GMT

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    Vincent Campbell wrote:

    > Another interesting piece Joe.

    is this part of the thread on contagion?

    > > ----------
    > > From: Joe Dees
    > > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 21:52 PM
    > > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > Subject: Blaming America First (from Mother Jones magazine)
    > >
    > >
    > > >Blaming America First Why are some on the left, who rightly demand
    > > sympathy for victims around the world, so quick to
    > > >dismiss American suffering? by Todd Gitlin January/February 2002
    > > >http://www.motherjones.com/magazine/JF02/blaming.html
    > > >

    Here's something similar from the Guardian today. compare the emotional content
    in each.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336955,00.html

    "Did the left lose the war?"

    Kabul fell in five weeks. The Islamic world has not erupted. So did the left get
    it all wrong - and does it matter?

    Andy Beckett Guardian Thursday January 17, 2002

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