Re: A True Believer

Guru George (gurugeorge@sugarland.idiscover.co.uk)
Fri, 9 May 1997 04:00:51 +0100


On Thu, 08 May 1997 19:51:25 -0400
Michael Lorrey <retroman@tpk.net> wrote:

>Erik Moeller wrote:
>>
>> John K Clark wrote:
>>
>> > If you can find some shred of objectivity that the
>> > socialism meme has not destroyed, ask yourself this question, why is the
>raft
>> > traffic 100% (and I don't mean 99%) from south to north rather than the
>> > reverse?
>>
>> Quite simple.
>>
>> 1) Media propaganda.
>
>WHose? The Cuban Government jams all US radio and television boradcasts,
>to the point of occasionally interfering in the southern Florida
>broadcast market area. Cubans get a banana version of the BBC: 3
>channels of government propaganda.
>
[snip]

I think maybe he meant that Western media propaganda about Cuba paints
such a gloomy picture of Cuba that nobody wants to go to Cuba. Which is
possibly one of the flimsiest rationalisations anyone's ever offered for
anything on this mailing list, apart from that hydrogen powered car
thang.

Guru George