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Author Topic:   Black Rednecks and White Liberals (by Thomas Sowell)
Jaderis
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Message 122 of 130 (378867)
01-22-2007 5:01 AM
Reply to: Message 106 by nator
01-21-2007 5:52 PM


Re: Sowell's wrong
A few years ago, I was in Tokyo to attend the wedding of a lifelong friend of my husband's.
At the time, this friend taught at a branch of the University of Maryland in Tokyo that was funded by the US military, so technically, he was a civilian employee of the military. Through his employment status, he was able to reserve some rooms for us at a military hotel in the middle of the city.
There were only a couple of US channels on the televisions in the rooms; CNN and FOX.
Before CNN News came on, there was a message on the screen that warned the person watching the TV in the hotel room (most likely to be a memeber of the US military) that some of the views expressed or news presented on the program might not be entirely supportive of the war in Iraq.
You know what was shown at the start of every FOX News broadcast?
No warning about any "unsupportive" views or news, of course.
As the music came up and the announcer came on, you heard him say, and you read the words as they appeared on the screen superimposed over an American flag, "FOX News; Part of the Team!"
Now, just what do you think they meant by calling themselves, "Part of the Team"?
Does that sound like they aren't "geared towards any demographic"?
Wow...just wow. That is insane and utterly horrifying.

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