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Jackson is president and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a multicultural activist group, and since 1992 has been the host of the television program "Both Sides With Jesse Jackson" which airs on CNN...
...more accustomed to the air war over Kosovo. "The key thing there is lack of casualties," says Thompson. "As in the slow-simmering war over Iraq, the West can endure as long there aren't boys coming home in body bags." Serb media stunts won't change that. Besides, CNN revealed Thursday that it had lost $1.1 million in equipment during this war, some bombed by NATO but most confiscated by the Serbs. Made-for-TV military maneuvers are a little pointless if there are no cameras to film them...
...story sounds less and less like a CNN news brief once it's revealed that the rocket is actually bound for the moon, manned by a doddering old scientist, an alcoholic sailor, a teenage reporter named Tintin and his cockerspaniel, Snowy. No need to stop the presses--it's only the premise for Destination Moon (1959), a Sputnik-era comic book by the Belgian illustrator Herge. Tintin and his two human companions, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus, eventually touch the surface of the moon, romp about in orange space suits and endure who-knows-how-many plots to steal...
This is hardly the only diatribe against the Western press you'll find on the Tanjug wire. A good percentage of the news agency's articles attack stories in the British and American media, particularly those on CNN, which Tanjug says is assuming "a leading role in the new propaganda undertaking...
...other hand, many tire of the twenty-four-hour analysis that dominates CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and talk radio. We sometimes complain about the constant punditry, but sometimes we also take great solace in it, parroting the supposed wisdom of commentators to friends and family...