"David" wrote in message
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| On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:01:18 GMT, "Bob Haberkost"
| wrote:

| Wow, this thread is almost on-topic!

| But the flag-waver needs a reality check. Unless he's a frequent listener of
| news sources outside of the U-S (my favourite is the CBC, but the Beeb will
do)
| the idea that market forces will "correct" this oversight fails to realise
that
| market forces have created this problem in the first place.

| That's one really nice thing about Sirius Satellite. They have the
| BBC World Service News 24/7, along with the CBC on World Radio Network
| on PRI which carries ''As It Happens'' live.

Actually, a relatively insignificant correction: As It Happens as cleared by PRI
on Sirius 108 is already 1-1/2 hours later than when it aired, live, to the
Maritimes. You can get As It Happens on the Atlantic zone feed at
www.cbc.ca/audio.html, starting at 5:30pm ET. Further, PRI only clears the
first hour of AIH. AIH is well aware of what airs in the U-S, and, while I
wouldn't say it's deliberate, that last segment has a certain status, as such
it's quite a treat to listen to the last 30 minutes, using whatever other means
you might have. The most recent piece I heard in that last segment was that the
Pentagon had, a number of years ago, commissioned some research to see if Viagra
could be used to create a "gay bomb", whichwould be used on the enemy to so
thouroughly distract them with the rapture of coitus with others in their
platoon. So you can see, the folks who run the Pentagon really are homophobic.
You'll find it in the last 6 minutes of this archive
(http://cbc.ca/asithappens/media/dail...01-14-aih3.ram) if you're
interested.

| Once you get the International News habit, you realize that the masses
| are being brainwashed by the US commercial media. No other word for
| it.

Long convinced of that, here. I don't take any of my news anymore unless I get
it "vetted" by seeing a similar report from outside the country. We're really
in trouble when (and not to make it seem that I'm too paranoid, I should
probably amend that to "if") filters go up to prohibit the masses from listening
to outside sources. It's already been shown that the northern border states
are, by virtue of their exposure to Canadian media outlets, better informed and
more tolerant than those in the central and southern U-S. Not that it's a
primary reason, but the effects are certainly measureable. You have to wonder,
though, how it can be that people who listen to shortwave (as the cross-post'ed
newsgroup suggests...I'm looking at alt.radio.broadcast myself) don't get a wiff
of what's happening outside their own little worlds, where the U-S is best,
because they live in it.
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