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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David bar-Ilan, Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:  9 Jun 96
RE:    Overview 1st week 6/96
REF:   "The Fix is In"  Heller, Catch 22
       Cf.  The Madwoman of Chaillot
       Spike Lee, "Do the Right Thing"
       Cf. Krautheimer? on Clinton, '92, arguing "he can be had"
CC:
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COUCH POTATOE ALERT 9 Jun 96

Looks like The Fix is In, and the Internationa Media Conspiracy(aka Conventional Wisdom) is in a holding pattern -- sustained butonly mild Bibi-bashing --  waiting to see:  Will he Do the RightThing -- 
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ie, Act like an Adult, 
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despite having presumably behaved so childishly that hehad to be named Bibi -- ie, sell out to internationalpressure?                            
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(As Newsweek notes with its notion of ConventionalWisdom -- I think taken from The New Republic'sZeitgeist Watch -- one ought not disregard atendency of the media to get trapped into, andstart beleiving in, its own  inventions)
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Which reminds me of a story in The JewishTeasury of Folklore:  A Prankster runs intothe Cheder and says, children,  run outsideand  see, there's a Purple Dragon -- so theydo, and then the townspeople follow, and thenthe Mayor and the Nobles, so the Pranksterruns outside after them, saying to himself, "Who knows?" )
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ie, sell out to international pressure and Join the Club?

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USA Foreign Policy, whose primary goal is Keep Bill off theDole, runs on a stick-and-carrot basis.  The carrot is PhotoOps with the Prez.  
(They used to trade the natives a few barrels of beads.) 

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In the USA, the Goal of LIfe is to get more money andpower than everyone else, so one can act like a childwith everybody!  
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Eg, go to the Potty and use dirty language to aPrime Minister!
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As Slippery Jim was wont to do
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presumably.
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(because I just presumed so, QED).