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>Or you've probably never heard of Iran Flight 655, where in 1988 a reckless US cruiser drifted into Iranian waters and shot down an Iranian commercial airplane

by JackFr 10y ago

>Or you've probably never heard of Iran Flight 655, where in 1988 a reckless US cruiser drifted into Iranian waters and shot down an Iranian commercial airplane in Iranian airspace. 290 fatalities, including women and children. 8th deadliest disaster in aviation history, nary a peep in the US media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655. But they are the reckless terrorists to watch out for. 'Nary a peep in the US media'? Front page in the New York Times and Washington Post? http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/04/world/downing-flight-655-us-downs-iran-airliner-mistaken-for-f-14-290-reported-dead.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/04/world/downing-flight-655-u... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flight801/stories/july88crash.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flight80... I'm not sure what a would constitute 'a peep' for you.

csallen 10y ago
Compare it to the Soviets shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983. Chomsky writes, "For the month of September 1983 alone, the New York Times index—the very densely printed index of articles that have appeared in the Times—has seven full pages devoted to this story. That's the index, for one month alone. The liberal Boston Globe on the first day of coverage had its first ten full pages devoted to that story and nothing else." That's what a peep looks like. What do you think would happen if Iran were to shoot down an American commercial flight in US waters/airspace with hundreds of families on board?
- akamaka 10y ago
  The phrase "nary a peep" means "never one single small sound". The context of this discussion is about entirely unreported drone strikes, not the number of pages devoted to a front page incident. Your points are fair, but there's no need to start an argument over misreading what the parent comment what trying to say.
  - mistermann 10y ago
    This seems a bit disingenuous to me, without your parent's comment I for one would have had a misleading perception of the reality (assuming that comment is true, is it not?).
talmand 10y ago
I was a teenager at the time and I remember watching it on the news on broadcast TV.

by JackFr 10y ago

csallen 10y ago

Compare it to the Soviets shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983. Chomsky writes, "For the month of September 1983 alone, the New York Times index—the very densely printed index of articles that have appeared in the Times—has seven full pages devoted to this story. That's the index, for one month alone. The liberal Boston Globe on the first day of coverage had its first ten full pages devoted to that story and nothing else." That's what a peep looks like. What do you think would happen if Iran were to shoot down an American commercial flight in US waters/airspace with hundreds of families on board?

akamaka 10y ago
The phrase "nary a peep" means "never one single small sound". The context of this discussion is about entirely unreported drone strikes, not the number of pages devoted to a front page incident. Your points are fair, but there's no need to start an argument over misreading what the parent comment what trying to say.
- mistermann 10y ago
  This seems a bit disingenuous to me, without your parent's comment I for one would have had a misleading perception of the reality (assuming that comment is true, is it not?).

talmand 10y ago

I was a teenager at the time and I remember watching it on the news on broadcast TV.