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Originally posted by: Regicidal_ManiacQuote
Originally posted by: ricarleite
OK, somehow I feel some people will get angry at me... Geez I promised to get away from political discussions, but they pull me back again!
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" - Michael Corleone
Here in Oz we get loads of American news in our nightly newsbroadcasts, you know being a contender for the 51st state and all.
The thing that surprises me is the disparity of information between OUR reports of an event and the NBC news or CNN news reports or other reports of the same events. On our ABC and SBS the reporting is far more detailed than the reports from Americas own stations which will usually only have a portion of a soundbyte whereas our reports will include said soundbyte in context.
I used to be annoyed at how much focus some other country got in our news but I guess it is important seeing as how he who controls Rome controls the world. It's a pity then that the rest of the world has no say in your elections which end up impacting our lives.
"It never ends!" - Kay
Exactly, there is a disparity of information, but there are news that are not publicized on north america at all. During the 2000 election, the whole plot of voters being taken out of voting lists in Florida was being publicized over here and on Europe as well, but as far as I know, and I might be wrong, this was only turned public on the USofA almost 2 years later! And the whole connection between Bush and BinLadens, I remember reading about it one week after 9/11, and then it took for Michael Moore almost 3 years to make it public on Fahrenheit 9/11!?! Which is why I don't give him so much credit for that movie, he only pointed out the obvious in a propagandish way. (besides he is one lousy editor, talk about movie pacing problems!)