yes, it was an explanation, and far from a justification, of U.S. corporate media behavior. salon.com is non-corporate, out of the mainstream, high quality ... and barely surviving unfortunately. At 04:20 PM 10/18/02 +1000, craiggy@ozemail.com.au wrote: >I hope people are only tring to explain the US media behaviour (in regards >to Bali), and not in any way justify it.