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To: C19fan

We are getting a lot of our news from UK reporting of news that is omitted int the U.S. media.

It is telling both of us and them.

For us, it clearly demonstrates what our “news elite” consider important to report, ignore, or sweep under the rug.

However, I think there is more to learn. The British media is just as guilty or more of these omissions, so why the preoccupation with odd little stories from the U.S.?

I think it is a matter of bread and circuses. The strange happenings in the U.S. offer a distraction from the Orwellian society that is devouring the UK.


19 posted on 08/06/2012 5:43:47 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

Not really. The British media (particularly the Daily Mail and the Guardian) has been making a huge effort to get into the lucrative US market for their online editions for some years now (hence the Daily Mail using Americanisms like ‘mom’ instead of ‘mum’ for example). I can also assure you that the British media does not ignore controversial domestic issues concerning society and government the way the American media does for their domestic issues.
America’s mainstream media is shockingly bad considering it is supposedly operating in a free country. Britain’s tabloid media may be very sensationalist at times, but it is quite rightly feared by our elites for the sheer glee it takes in attacking them whenever the opportunity arises, which frankly, is as it should be...


37 posted on 08/06/2012 7:54:32 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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