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MEDIA BIAS
TO:  BAR-ILAN, EYE ON MEDIA, JLEM POST; CC: BEDEIN ISRAEL RESOURCE
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Haon, 15170; 06-757572; FAX: 06-757511
REF:   TIME Dec. 05, 1994  Time Global 100  (James Walsh)
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EVEN-HANDED ADJECTIVES STRIKE AGAIN

Tzahi HaNegbi, Radical Politician ... "both his parents weremembers of the terrorist Stern Gang...notoreity...rabble-rousing[with, by implication, the undergraduates of Hebrew U. as therabble (in arms?)]...critics call him an opportunist

BALANCED BY:

Mohammed Dahlan, Head of Preventive Security..the PalestineAuthority's version of the FBI ....reputed nice guys arerarities...affable, even gracious former guerillafighter...earlier exploits in the underground resistance to theIsraeli occupation.  A local boy who grew up in the city of KhanYunis and studied at the Islamic University in Gaza City...viewedas trustworthy and fair...        


COMMENT:  Really, one must drop the Jeffersonian illusion thatinternational media are disinterested reporters that do not bytheir reporting influence the situation they report; they are infact partisans in political struggles fought in increasing part -- possibly now predominantly -- through the media.  As such theyshould not be treated more tolerantly than any other non-violentbut subversive force.  


