I lived in Germany for about three years fairly recently, and most all
European Cable Companies are carrying the "French" English speaking
channel, ("France 24"; "FP") as well as the Chinese; ("CCTV") Ya'll
already menioned Russia's "RT". More and more European hotels are carrying
these stations as well as the Deutsche Welle which also broadcasts one
channel in English; in concert with CNN, Bloomberg and the BBC.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:06 AM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yep, exactly! You could get anything and everything. The raw unedited
> sports stuff was a blast; so were news feeds! They'd go on and on during
> every commercial break live as if they didn't know it was being seen by
> anyone. Too much fun.
>
> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 11:22:04 PM UTC-4, gtheist957 wrote:
>>
>> Are you talking about the big c-band satellite dishes that rotated. Those
>> were great you could get raw unedited news feeds Arab sitcoms and variety
>> shows and all manner of odd programming
>>
>> On Sep 2, 2016 10:13 PM, "'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum" <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yep, I was in Europe for a couple of weeks this summer and watched
>>> mostly BBC and Bloomberg for news. Most of the others were in German,
>>> though, which I don't speak. ;)
>>>
>>> I found it interesting to see the assortment of news channels like Al
>>> Jazeera and Russia Times along with some from Japan, China, and several
>>> other places. Heck we probably have access to them here but I've never
>>> watched most of them.
>>>
>>> We used to have one of those massive (commercial sized) satellite dishes
>>> and it got stuff from everywhere. For years we'd have a big party on Race
>>> Day here - the Indy 500 is always blacked out locally, but we could get it
>>> from anywhere else in the country. I miss that thing. It also picked up the
>>> uncut version of the sportscasts and the announcers cussing and making fun
>>> of people, lol. It was much more fun than scripted tv sometimes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 6:57:28 PM UTC-4, Kamakazee wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've shut them down, used to check the site almost hourly on the
>>>> phone. I quit 'em. Looking at options, BBC and Bloomberg are looking
>>>> good.
>>>>
>>>> I tell ya, when I'm overseas I was a lot of Al Jeezera, good stuff,
>>>> believe it or not.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 5:35:44 PM UTC-5, Perplexed wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi there, Kamakazee. Of course you are welcome here; we always like
>>>>> new faces. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I couldn't agree more with you on CNN. I saw it somewhat over the
>>>>> years, but now it's off the charts when it comes to being dishonest and
>>>>> biased. They are just as bad as - if not worse than - MSNBC. And the
>>>>> problem is, they have a larger audience, as they always *had* the title of
>>>>> being the moderate or objective source for cable news in between the other
>>>>> two.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you seen this video of ten minutes of them cutting mics of guests
>>>>> on their show? It's hilarious:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.dailywire.com/news/8285/nine-minutes-cnn-cutting-
>>>>> guests-who-dare-critcize-chase-stephens
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 5:07:48 PM UTC-4, Kamakazee wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Perp Person, I've heard quite a few good things about you from
>>>>>> Navy, mind if I hang here for a whilst?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS. I'm done with CNN. Sent them a nasty email. I remember when
>>>>>> their cable show went 24 hours. Might have been 79 or so? Right around
>>>>>> Christmas I think. I remember staying up all night playing with a slot
>>>>>> car
>>>>>> set I got for Xmas watching news over night. I was in heaven. Now CNN
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> hell. Every, and I mean every, story they have on the election is
>>>>>> slanted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 1:22:17 PM UTC-5, Perplexed wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Clinton News Network simply can't help themselves! Thankfully
>>>>>>> more and more people are waking up every day to the unbelievable amount
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> bias and outright LIES perpetuated by the joke of a media we have in
>>>>>>> America.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/31/good-samaritan-saves-infan
>>>>>>> t-hln-censors-his-trump-shirt-video/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Watch the two videos. Not only did they blur out the t-shirt in the
>>>>>>> second, but they changed the video entirely to show stills of the scene
>>>>>>> instead of the hero wearing the Trump shirt.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When caught and called out for it, the pathetic network's response
>>>>>>> was that it was a "mistake". Their only mistake was in getting caught;
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> is what CNN has been all about for years, and never more so than this
>>>>>>> election season.
>>>>>>>
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