At 05:58 AM 4/22/99 -0700, Tom Walker wrote: >In 1987-88 after having lived for twenty years in Canada, I spent eight >months at Cornell. I lived in a residence with domestic and foreign graduate >students. One of the amazing things was watching the T.V. news together at >six. The foreigners, myself included, would gawk and howl at the laughably >blatant propaganda. The domestics would stare seriously at the tube, not >comprehending the reason for all the hilarity around them. You are absolutely right, Tom. I came to this country some 18 years ago, and to this day I am amazed by the stupefying seriousness with which the locals treat the media. I guess I'll never become a true American (but won't loose any sleep over this either). But I am not alone. We have a quite large foreign exchange program here, and many foreign fellows are also nonplussed by the locals' media naivete. Wojtek
