Sep
25
2006
You got to love American media

Look at the picture above.  It contains the current cover of Newsweek from various regions of the world.  They all show and discuss the same information except the American version.  While the rest of the world gets to read about Afghanistan and how, "Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely."  While the US gets to read about and see pictures of Angelina Jolie and her baby.

There's something wrong here.  I guess the American public can't handle what the rest of the world is reading.  Or maybe it would just be anti-American to suggest that President Bush's war or errorism (I mean terrorism) is failing.  Mark Twain once said, "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

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This article was published 3y 11mon ago on Monday, September 25, 2006 11:10 am by Nick Villescas. It was published under the following topics: Politics and with the following tags: America, conspiracy, media, Newsweek. So far this article has received 790 hits with 3 comments.
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3y 11mon ago // September 26, 2006 3:22 am
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Well, the problem with being informed is the media has become biased and now it's hard to trust the news anymore. The only news I listen to on the radio anymore is what I hear on Air America. You can't trust Fox News anymore, ABC has chosen it's side, CBS Evening news has become a crappy News Magazine. I guess now I only trust NBC. It's a sad fact that the Republicans run most of the media today. I hope that changes this November.

3y 11mon ago // September 26, 2006 6:16 pm
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The media is owned by private companies, how can the media not show bias?  It's always been bias.  The Republicans don't "run" the media, this goes deeper than some silly political issue and drives down at the heart of all politics, economics, their class, the same class as the democrats own it.  Always have until the people take what should be theres.

In Britain the BBC are public, and Channel 4 are private (single share-holder the government)...probably commonly called "state-owned media" always portrayed by private channels as being "bad".  That's the closest you can get to a non-bias media in bourgeois society.
3y 11mon ago // September 30, 2006 9:04 pm
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The American Media is a bit odd. I'm not sure, but I think the cover just might be different. The cover picture is of Anne Leibovitz. She's a photographer and the story is about her life as such. The Newsweek website has the table of contents for that issue, and the story about Afghanistan is in there. The other cover is featured on Newsweek International.
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