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Re: Don’t you just hate the pinko US media?
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Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:56:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > I heard yesterday that the BBC now rivals CNN in the USA… I wonder why?
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> Yeah, I go to CNN to read the propaganda and see what FOX's competition has
> to say about things. I go to the BBC for something approximating the truth.
BBC Radio 4's "Today" pretty much sets the agenda here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/
However, ITN's C4 News is also proving its worth
http://www.channel4.co.uk/news/index.html
> The real problem is how most americans just don't do ANY digging for the
> truth.
Trust in the age of spin!
> If it's not on the evening news on TELEVISION, most people will
> never hear of it.
...and if there are no pictures, it's not a story as far as TV in concerned.
> It's not precisely that we lack a free press,
Free, but not independent!
> but that
> people simply do not really search for things or read in the first place.
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> I guess there's no point in discussing the literacy issue here. Even when
> Americans know how to read they do not avail themselves of important
> information.
Given that the Bush is leading this mess, the lack of educated debate in the
USA is a major concern. Your armed forces are killing in name of you countrymen
- many of whom could not find Iraq on a child's globe.
Scott A
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