APPX 1 ====== [second excerpt regarding ineffectiveness due to
misunderstanding of the status and role of the mass media:]

  One last example: a letter to the NYT (?) by a spokesman for the FMLN.
  The writer spent much time and article-space discussing the FMLN's
  calls for prosecuting HR violators in the army, and generally
  "reforming the army". Nothing was mentioned, quoting Amnesty
  International, or former Ambassador White, for example, about the long
  and well-established history of effective immunity by the army, the
  fact the not a single officer had been prosecuted for those "tens of
  thousands" of crimes AI attributes to the army, and the long record of
  intimidation and violence towards civilian courts. The point is that
  *without* such information, it is all too easy -all but automatic, in
  fact- for the average reader to dismiss the asserted goals of the FMLN
  to reform the army and purge it of the butchers; after all, these are
  the FMLN who are the "communists," "terrorists" and, not in so many
  words, but unmistakably in content, are the portrayed "bad guys" in
  virtually every mainstream report. "Ah, another deceptive tactic
  -typical for communists- these claims of wanting to reform the army;
  they want to weaken it," the reader thinks, and the NYT is, again,
  "safe" in publishing such letters because the basic, established facts
  which would demonstrate the deep need for such reforms, which would
  provide convincing evidence for the FMLN's asserted goals, are
  entirely missing, due to an apparent vast ignorance by the spokesman
  of what the American public is (or isn't) told about the state of
  affairs in El Salvador. A statement, with attribution, to the effect
  that "death squads" = army would also have been worked into a letter
  written by someone who understands the American nooz-media.