28001: Koughan (comment) Re: 27988: Morse (comment) International Press Provocateur (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: FKoughan@aol.com

The democratically-elected president of a country, already overthrown in a
coup and restored to power by the US, is again forced into exile.   Elections
are held.  The exiled president's protege wins.  The exiled  president publicly

declares his desire to return home - a potentially monumental  event,
regardless of how one feels about the former president.

Is Richard Morse suggesting that there is no story here?  That  Aristide's
statements are unworthy of being covered, and reporters who do  so are being
duped?  Really?  If Baby Doc announced a serious  desire to return, would that
be
newsworthy? Or would a "grown up" press  corp refuse to cover it?

Richard may well be correct that Aristide is trying to "paint Preval into a
corner."  But that's news, isn't it?  Why shoot the  messengers?

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