Dangerous frontier
Sir,—Marie Venning (December 26) looks for reasoned arguments and factual reports not propaganda in her excellent newspaper. Sadly she is mistaken. News-collecting services overseas are usually owned by wealthy Right-wing capitalists electing Right-wing directors appointing Right-wing editors choosing usually Right-wing reporters. Subsequently, the incoming news is usually skewed to the Right. We have all heard of the Polish trade union, Solidarity, but not of the other half of Polish trade unions. In the same period Turkey’s American-aligned martial law Government crushed all Turkey’s trade unions, terminated collective bargaining, arrested, tortured and has threatened to execute their entire leadership. Who has not heard of the unfortunate dissident Soviet scientist Andre Sakharov? Who has heard of the Uruguayan mathematician Jose Luis Massera, jailed for 20 years and severely tortured for criticising his Government’s far more brutal excesses? Chomsky’s and Herman’s “After the Cataclysm” demonstrates the “reconstruction” of fact in capitalist literature. — Yours, etc.,
SUSAN TAYLOR. December 26, 1984.
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