From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 21:42:44 MST
--- Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Lee Corbin:
>
> > I would like to know what prominence the above article got
> > in the Australian press.
>
> Go to the url and see for yourself. Go back to the top page:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/
>
> > All I want is an objective news summary
>
> Well, the Age is a world class newspaper, and being Australian it's
> run by
> capitalists for profit (but then I always assumed the NYT is too),
> but unlike many US newspapers its coverage is far from parochial.
> Similarly with
> Aussie TV news: even the crassest commercial channel seems to have
> more planetary information than most US channels.
Don't mean to be rude, but how much stuff actually goes on in Oz? You'd
have to go planetary to fill up a paper or broadcast... ;)
That being said, we are seeing coverage about the wildfires and heat
spell down that way, all the bats dying of heatstroke, etc. I think
that most Americans tune out the rest of the world generally because so
much stuff that is more important TO THEM happens here.
I mean, in ancient Rome, how many everyday Romans actually gave much of
a crap about local politics on the Dalmatian frontier or in some
backwater like Palestine? The rest of the world came to Rome, and the
most exciting things day in and day out were chariot races, wrestling,
gladiator matches, and the rumor mill about which Senator was sleeping
with which other Senators wives, daughters, sons (or their own).
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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