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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: The Unasked Questions By Philip Hammond Since Vietnam, news management has been a key preoccupation of governments at war. But in today's information-rich environment the flow of news is far more difficult to control. Via the Internet, you can now read both Yugoslav and Albanian commentaries and reports on the crisis in Kosovo, as well as accessing American and European news sites. Yet politicians and Nato spokesmen have persistently attempted to serve us bite-size News McNuggets, and the vast majority of the British public still rely on their own media to tell them what is happening. Even in the era of the Information Superhighway, it is to newspapers and television that most of us turn for facts, and the info-glut has arguably made interpretation and analysis more important than ever. So how successful have the British media been in giving us an informative account of the Kosovo crisis? Nato's bombing campaign started when the Rambouillet negotiations broke down. Yet there has been virtually no critical analysis of why this happened. What were the objections of the Yugoslav government, for example? The Boston Herald wrote that: 'The deal they were told to accept, or else, involved immediate autonomy for Kosovo and a three-year transition toward unspecified goals, supervised by Nato troops'. In Britain, we are told that the Serbs rejected a reasonable 'peace agreement' which preserved Yugoslavia's territorial integrity. The Rambouillet accord is available on the Internet. Take a look, and ask yourself if you can think of any sovereign state in the world that would accept its terms. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2449 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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