Brice replies:
>Tracy asks: 
>> What makes the NYT so imperative as a source, can it not be 
>> found elsewhere?  BBC, IHT, or (cookie-ridden) Allafrica?  
>> <sarcasm> I doubt IRIN would archive such reporting. </sarcasm>
> 
> ---------------
> 
> It has to do with an agenda.  There is a presumtion that the 
> mainstream press is impartial and it is not.  In contrast 
> National Review does not pretend to be other than a 
> Conservative publication, and the Daily Worker freely admits 
> to being a House Organ for the Communist Party.
> 
> So if I want to read a Conservative viewpoint, I would read 
> NR.  If I want to find out what the ACP has to say, it would 
> read the DW.  If I wanted an impartial view, the mainstream 
> press is where I -should- go, btu I do not find one there.

So, in your first paragraph, you state that the mainstream press is not
impartial (to which, I can safely presume, includes the NYT as
mainstream press.)

In the second paragraph, you state you're searching for an impartial
view, to which (by my interpretation) you're excluding NYT as a source.
It's like you want it, but don't want it at the same time.

So my original question stands and rephrased.  Why is the NYT so
imperative for this story (if you can't have it?)

(Original e-mail re-added below:)

Brice replies: 
>The NYT won't go near that story for some reason. 
> >--------------- 
>Denys - 
>Has there been anything in the NYT about the UN's >involvement in the
Brothels being run in Africa?

BT


Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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