Iraqi child death rates soar

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Fri Aug 13 08:51:42 PDT 1999



> [The following is from today's NY Times.]
>
> With Little Notice, U.S. Planes Have Been Striking Iraq All Year

I thought I should append the following acute observation concerning this NYT article from Slate's "Today's Papers" summary:

"This is a curious story: It is hard news reported almost as if it were a trend, and it is pegged partly to its own absence in the very newspaper in which it now appears."

Carl



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