JMS on CompuServe (Aug 21, 1996) * FINAL FIVE SPOILERS*

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 [ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
    Sb: #563878-#<<Walkabout propaganda>>

 [ Summary: A poster continues, this time with another poster, to urge the
   use of propaganda by the Army of Light. ]

 #: 563918 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
    20-Aug-96  21:28:10
Sb: #563878-#<<Walkabout propaganda>>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

      Okay, John, lemme ask you a question, since you keep harping on this
issue of propaganda.

      You're the leader of an isolated space station with a quarter million
inhabitants, who need air, food, supplies, space, support.  You no longer have
ties to Earth, no support from there, no money, so you have to rely on whatever
docking fees you can get from other worlds.  You're in the midst of a war in
which you have few resources, little money, allies that have a tendency to turn
on one another, nobody's giving you a break, your position is tenuous as hell,
you're constantly undermanned, shorthanded....

      Now you tell me where the heck you're going to get the time, resources,
money and manpower to launch a propaganda operation, which if you're going to
broadcast (and what's the point otherwise?) on an interstellar basis is going
to require extensive and expensive facilities, broadcast repeaters, tacyhon
carrier wave generators to get around the time-delay aspects, writers,
directors, broadcast engineers, spokespersons, propaganda specialists,
psychologists, technicians, camera equipment, space in which to PUT all of this
stuff...on and on and on.

      You keep beating this particular horse, but your objection has nothing to
do with the reality of their position.

                                                                    jms



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