[MEDIA]: USA vs UK

From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Sat Jun 28 2003 - 08:58:37 MDT

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    Found this interesting article on differences between US and UK news
    reporting.

    <<So why the transatlantic journalistic rift? Are American journalists
    simply spineless? Do they toe the line because they love the President?
    Or because their employers do?

    The answer, I think, is more complex. Americans in all walks of life
    have a respect for authority that the cynical Brits jettisoned somewhere
    around the time of Profumo and Christine Keeler. Americans, remember,
    still go to church. For all their rhetoric of freedom, there is
    nevertheless an acceptance of a higher power here in the United States.
    And an acceptance, too, of unimpeachable motives.>>

    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=418401

            -Mike

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