The article JISA is using. :)

Hey guys,
I found this article on the NYTIMES website that Cam posted. I plan to incorporate & use the article in my script. My theme is going to be something like, "WHY were they there? Why were there so many deaths? Why did the government try to HIDE the truth?" & I figured, by using this article I'd be able to identify my reasoning behind these questions we'd be able to use media theories such as, GATEKEEPING, agenda-setting, cultivation, etc. I only chose some of the quotes in the article, not all.

The RWANDA Killings link:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/international/countriesandterritories/rwanda/genocide/index.html

THE link to the actual article:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E0DF133AF933A25755C0A962958260&ref=genocide

Officials Told to Avoid Calling Rwanda Killings 'Genocide'
By DOUGLAS JEHL,
Published: June 10, 1994
WASHINGTON, June 9— Trying to avoid the rise of moral pressure to stop the mass killing in Rwanda, the Clinton Administration has instructed its spokesmen not to describe the deaths there as genocide, even though some senior officials believe that is exactly what they represent.

But American officials say that so stark a label could inflame public calls for action the Administration is unwilling to take. Rather than compare the massacre with, for example, the deaths under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the State Department and the National Security Council have drafted guidance instructing spokesmen to say merely that "acts of genocide may have occurred."

Still, with independent witnesses providing detailed accounts of organized killings of members of the minority Tutsi ethnic group by the majority Hutus, some senior American officials acknowledge that the Administration's public posture reflects a certain lack of candor.

"Genocide is a word that carries an enormous amount of responsibility," a senior Administration official said this week. If the United States joined in describing the killings as genocide, the official and others said, it would be natural -- and unwelcome -- for voters to expect that the response would include dispatching troops.

"As a responsible Government, you don't just go around hollering 'genocide,' " David Rawson, the United States Ambassador to Rwanda, said in an interview. "You say that acts of genocide may have occurred and they need to be investigated." Cries of Hypocrisy

Herman Cohen, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, used an op-ed article in The Washington Post last week to lambaste the Clinton Administration for what he called its "wimpish approach" in Rwanda. Mr. Cohen declared flatly that the killings there "must be called genocide."

"Another Holocaust may just have slipped by, hardly noticed," Mr. Cohen wrote.