James - look on the positive side. The US News cares about your values and sensibilities. They don't want to upset you - either case fear - as in fear of revolution, or bad manners, i.e. the faith of the ugly american. In the US news is a marketing function not to be confused with real information or reporting. Regards Joe On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, James Santagata wrote: > At 08:35 AM 12/1/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:29:20AM -0500, Mark Jeftovic wrote: > >> > >> On 01-Dec-99 Jay Fenello wrote: > >> > Well, it's 3:30 a.m. EST, and I have seen very > >> > little coverage of the riots. It's seems that > >> > the Pete Rose story is a much higher priority > >> > topic tonight! > >> > > >> > In other words, I'd say were in the midsts of > >> > another media blackout. For those who missed > >> > the last one, there is a good summary at: > >> > http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00677.html > >> > > >> > >> I dunno Jay, I don't watch much TV but I flipped on CNN last night and > >> they had quite extensive coverage of it. Also the radio station I listen > >> to in the morning (CFRB in Toronto) talked about it at length as well. > > > >Front page banner headline in the San Francisco Chronicle... > > I can tell you from California I'm getting nothing. Oh yeah, sure there > is always CNN (I have 5 news channels and this is the only one that shows > anything other than stock footage on the local news). Where was Nightline? > And considering that routine car chases on California freeways can > pre-empt televised soap operas and daytime drama for 4 hours so you can > watch the chase live and then the criminal/suspect get shot by police, you > would think that anarchist riots, tear gasing, the firing of rubber > bullets, the calling out of the national guard and a 5 pm curfew would get > you some coverage, right? Not in the US anymore. Of course, us folk in the > US never did get accurate coverage of the riots and protests in Greece > either. We were told it was "several hundred" protestors. We had to turn to > the non-US press for accurate news. Turned out to be thousands. > > To be fair, I did see some short blurb on local dockworkers in San Francisco > who were refusing to load or unload ships to protest the impact of WTO on > national sovereignty. Seemed hypocritical to me, since these workers had no > problem with "national sovereignty" as they loaded bombs and missiles for > shipment to NATO to be used to kill people and violate a small European > countries sovereignty. > > > > James >
