IP: bin laden: spinmeister

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 05:43:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: frank millheim jr <millheif () yahoo com>
> Subject: bin laden: spinmeister
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
> <http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/16/wvid16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/16/ixhome.html>http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/16/wvid16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/16/ixhome.html
>
> His grasp of spin is chilling . . .
> (Filed: 16/11/2001)
>
> Few Westerners have seen Osama bin Laden's recruitment video in full. So 
> what did Julia Magnet, a young Jewish New Yorker, make of it?
>
> THE Third Reich may have honed a formidable propaganda machine, but even 
> Hitler might have drawn the line at flashy music videos. In that respect, 
> at least, Osama bin Laden has topped the Fuhrer.
>
> Until I sat down to watch a two-hour Al Qa'eda recruitment video, made 
> just six months before the September 11 attacks, I had no idea that the 
> champion of anti-Americanism had hijacked our Hollywood gimmicks and 
> television tricks. Far more likely, I thought, that he'd produce a dreary 
> display of militant fundamentalism: lots of ranting against America and 
> Saudi Arabia, with some macho gun-play thrown in for show.
>
> What I actually saw was far more worrying: Osama bin Laden beating us at 
> our own media game. With devilish cunning, he has plugged into the MTV 
> generation - and it's clear he knows how to reach us. I have spent all day 
> humming militant Islamic songs. And I am a Jewish twenty-something from 
> New York.
>
> <snip>
>
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