[lbo-talk] "Saving Meg Ryan"

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Apr 5 05:57:15 PST 2003


***** NYT April 4, 2003 Images of Victory Overshadow Doses of Realism By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

...Good news got even better: Pfc. Jessica Lynch shifted overnight from victim to teenage Rambo: all the cable news shows ran with a report from The Washington Post that the 19-year-old P.O.W. had been shot and stabbed yet still kept firing at enemy soldiers. In the hands of television, the story had instantly gelled into a heroic made-for-TV war movie, "Saving Meg Ryan." Later yesterday, her father said she had not been shot or stabbed....

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04WATC.html> ***** -- Yoshie

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