<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[Alma J Wetzker]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
> 
>>And you're right about not
>>getting this sort of description in the papers in the US (like others on
>>the list, I too do not watch the news on TV, but prefer the NY Times,
>>that bastion of us evil liberals).
> 
> 
> After all, our news media is "fair and balanced" right?!
> 
> Seriously, there are people that watch Fox and believe everything they
> say. Its truly appalling what passes for journalism in this country.

How is that worse than the folks that went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 to 
find out the real facts about what happened.  Idiocy is not confined to 
only the liberal/conservative side.  What frightens me is that more and 
more folks are relying on the extremes for the main source of their 
information.  And things like the net are enabling this self-imposed 
isolation from anything remotely resembling the moderate center, (and, 
incidently, the truth).

> 
> I know that in the UK, the news is generally international first and local
> second - in the US its ass-backwards as usual.
> 
> 

Americans have a long and distinguished history of being isolationists. 
  It goes all the way back to George Washington and his comment about 
entangling alliances.  Our participation in the cold war was a 
historical abberation, driven by self preservation.  It is silly to 
think that our news would reflect anything different.

One of the nicest things about ham radio and understanding a different 
language is not having to rely on the U.S. news services.  I still 
haven't heard anything about Oz.  I wish there was something we could 
do, other than pray.

     -- Alma