Mainstream media claims that international coverage is expensive and difficult to produce. But in the case of East Timor, a country that experienced savage oppression at the hands of US-backed Indonesian military, there was an unacceptable blanket of silence sustained by our major news outlets. Is this simply a matter of budgetary limitations or are corporate-owned media just protecting their own.
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