<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[Collins Richey]

On 8/28/05, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > I know that in the UK, the news is generally international first and local
> > second - in the US its ass-backwards as usual.
> >
> >
>   I do not know of any news media that is not biased. In this country
> you have to be a GALAH to believe the pollies and the media.
> 

Quite true. The major difference between the liberal and conservative
media that I have sampled, is that the liberal media believe that they
are reporting the news even when much of the content is editorial
opinion whereas Fox and other conservative media readily admit their
bias. Also, the New York Times and their ilk seldom report all the
news, only that which fits their notion of what is news.

A better source of news these days are the many blogs, if you have the
time; I don't. The more reputable blogs are on the cutting edge of
news as it is happening. I get excerpts from these on talk radio, and
they're usually right on the money. Before you ask, the better ones,
for news at least, take a conservative stand.

Back to the original topic. None of the above have picked up on the
disastrous drouth (is drought an Aussie/UK version of the same thing?)
in Oz or anywhere else. All eyes are focused on the current price of
consumer oil products and on the three ring circus on the outskirts of
the GWB ranch.

-- 
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write 
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not 
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan