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b0unce wrote:fuck you monkey man - we know all about your foreign policies.

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inis wrote:

network.funky wrote:

snowtires wrote:the government under george bush has done more to ruin this country than any terrorist act ever could.

I thought voting him in WAS a terrorist act!?

I love how people in england think they actually have a clue about the US government. You guys dont know 1% about what actually goes on over here. just like everyone else in the world. Its not your fault, but the media coverage reguarding the US is ever worse outside of our country than in it. AND IT SUCKS HERE. Im not any kind of bush supporter in any way. But i wouldnt pretend to know anything about how your country functions by reading USA Today or the Wall Street Journal. Be real.

I think you'll find our news coverage of world events is far better than US coverage of events beyond its shores. I've worked for major US and UK news broadcasters so have first hand experience of the coverage both offer.

In part it's not the US's fault, its such a huge country that there's more than enough news there to fill a programme without looking to other countries to borrow some of their current affairs.

so i asked a friend about net neutrality, cuz i won't pretend to understand it after a weekend of dealing with airports and delays and no sleep.

and she sends me this:

http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/05/1 ... neutrality

and i laughed. a lot.

inis wrote:But i wouldnt pretend to know anything about how your country functions by reading USA Today or the Wall Street Journal. Be real.

Ofcourse you wouldn't. Hopefully you wouldn't pretend to know anything about how our country, or anything for that matter, functions by reading any of that drivel either.

U.S. Media reorting:

U.S. officials said.......
High Ranking U.S. Intelligence officials said.....
President Bush said.....
in an interview today Dick Cheney was quoted as saying.....
when asked about Iraq a pentagon spokesman said......
todays press conference with White house spokesperson Tony Snow confirms that....
sources close to the president are saying....
The CIA declined to confirm reports that.....
Officials at the State Department were quoted as saying...
Ann Coulter said....


In a recent lecture at M.I.T. Robert Fisk suggested that the name of all major U.S. new outlets should be changed to "U.S. Officials said" and I agree. Our media here is a joke and I don't care if its the "librul media" or fox news. Its the same thing as state sponsored media. FOX, CNN, MSNBC, all of the major news outlets are bullshit. Our "Iraqi correspondents reporting live to you from a hotel inside the American controlled green zone are reporting that.....

The American public is shielded from real news. I'd venture that the average person outside the United States has a better grasp on whats going on in the world, and in our counrty, then most of us here do.

*sigh*

In other news Jello Biafra is doing a spoken word gig in Baltimore on the 27th.

The American public is shielded from real news. I'd venture that the
average person outside the United States has a better grasp on whats
going on in the world, and in our counrty, then most of us here do.

Without a doubt.

On SBS here we get news from all over the world. Every different perspective.

With that, the average Australian knew what was coming the second Bush was elected.

-Ben

b0unce wrote:2. privatise

I was thinking "Make the camel fuckers speak English", but hey...

MrYellow wrote:

The American public is shielded from real news. I'd venture that the
average person outside the United States has a better grasp on whats
going on in the world, and in our counrty, then most of us here do.

Without a doubt.

On SBS here we get news from all over the world. Every different perspective.

With that, the average Australian knew what was coming the second Bush was elected.

-Ben

dude, explain john howard then??

these fuckers over here are just part of the Bush clergy - at least paul keating had a bit of personality, we've got mr magoo for prime minister now. And peter costello actually looks like a vaudeville villain - even has the frowny eyebrows - looks like he's just come from tying damsels to railway tracks

and I have to say, after living in the UK, Australian news doesnt feel too far behind the US - sure SBS is good for international, but everywhere I've lived so far has had such a crap picture of it I I've never been able to watch it, and in all other media there is definitely alot more local news, alot of it on a par with "cat stuck up tree" compared to british news

of course the British media LOVE sensationalism, and "cat stuck up tree" over there would be "thousands fear for their own safety as feline briton stranded in limbo, home secretary says they will stamp down on these illegal feline immigrants before the next election. Chancellor Brown says taxes may rise to meet the cost." but they do seem to have more international news than we do here.

or if it is international here it all involves indonesia and east timor

maybe that's just the difference between being all the way out here in oceania compared to europe, but it defintely feels like we're on a seperate planet sometimes.

So does this get reposted every time politics comes up or what? I generally pass over the [OT] topics around here, and I imagine I'll keep doing so, but kudos to those of you who offered up well reasoned responses.

Anyway, go check out what drew westen has to say about how some of you are responding to this thread.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Westen

Yup last 10 years AU has gone to crap.

Still.... I knew the nuclear docs were a fake months before it hit the US
media, knew the Blair dossier was a kids term paper long before the story
broke elsewhere..... Kept hearing these things getting big in the US media
months after something could have been done about them going "wtf...
How come they are only reporting on that now".

-Ben