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Colin, sorry, but a picture of a million protestors followed by a full minute of GWB's comments is not balanced coverage... millions of people all over the world voiced a common opinion, it was staggeringly huge international event, it merits more than a quick clip and a couple of comments
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i saw 100% live coverage from start to finish on both BBC and CNN of the entire protest from before to after. CNN had Richard Quest reporting right there from Picadilly Circus from dawn til dusk. what are you talking about? it was a major world event and received coverage that such an event would merit
how is that or can that be biased? how did BBC cover the event and provide more objectivity than CNN?
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American news is biased because of it's sources - the whitehouse (and all other political bodies) manage the news cycle very carefully, making sure that the stories they want get covered and the less desirable stuff gets buried under a sea of pro-whatever is important right now stories.[quote]
explain this vast media conspiracy controlled by the Government of the United States. who calls the programming director for PBS to tell them what story President Bush said was ok to cover and which are not?
who makes these decisions? how does this process work? Ted Turner is really a Bush/Republican puppet????
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Most of your political debates are really nothing more than republican vs democratic horn blowing and finger pointing, and rarely has anything to do with the real world.
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uh.... thats what political debates are... everywhere.
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More importantly, US news has moved from fact to "s'posin' " - views, opinions, theories, concepts, etc. It is hard for most people to figure out the difference between fact and editorial comments these days.[quote]
you are back to the ignorant and typical "GFY-like" "My news is better than your news" debate that Colin was talking about.
"your too dumb to understand that you are a brainwashed American, so your opinion is not as relevant as mine"
- any GFY post on politics
and typically the last words of someone who has proven himself to be out gunned
again you are continuing to imply that Americans are stupid because they dont get facts, are easily manipulated by the government, are unwittingly victems of a massive government media conspiracy to brainwash them.
b-o-r-i-n-g
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Colin, do yourself a favor - watch some BBC news, some CBC news, and whatever other international news sources you can find - pick up english language editions of a foreign newspaper - find out what other people think, how the news is reported differently, and you will see a different world.
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what is it with this assumption by non-US citizens that Americans dont watch BBC? or other news sources for that matter? I have never had cable TV in the States and not had BBC. I watch both. I watch both because they both repeat themselves on 1hr or 30 min cycles. They run the same special reports several times a day (as with the President of Nigeria on BBC today for example which i watched 4 times) They report the same stories and the same news... Mostly from wire services like Reuters and Associated Press.
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Living in Canada means I can watch news from at least four different countries (US, Canada, UK, and France) and the stories don't all play the same... it is interesting and it is an eye opener.
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so what? i watch BBC World, CNN International, Euronews and read all day long. so what? you make it sound like one network will report a UFO is landing and killing people while another ignores it all together or tries to say its just a weather balloon. the reporting is not that different. you have not made the case that it is.