Word: mcveigh
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Ashley’s 11 points on the season tie her for the team points lead with fellow junior forward Annie Gibson, who has four goals and three assists. Junior midfielder Mary McVeigh leads Dartmouth in the assists column with...
...back for a moment to the Oklahoma City bombing. Let's say that Timothy McVeigh was not captured right away, that he was on the lam and the focus of a national manhunt. After he has eluded capture for a couple of weeks, someone drops off a videocassette at a network news office saying, "It's a message to America from Tim McVeigh...
...What do you do? Do you put it on right away in order to beat your network rivals? Do you watch it first and then make a judgment? Might McVeigh be sending a hidden message to some of his confederates? Are you helping him in some undetermined way by airing the tape unedited...
...that the networks would have aired the McVeigh tape, much as they aired the video feeds from Al Jazeera of both Osama bin Laden and Sulaiman Abu Ghaith making militant propaganda statements. You can't really argue against the claim that the tapes constitute news. Of course they're news...
...statement from anyone without first evaluating it? We don't even do that with political commercials, which are all looked at by the networks before they air them. It might be easier for the networks henceforth if they simply say any future videotapes would have to pass the Tim McVeigh test...