RE: [MEDIA]: USA vs UK

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jun 28 2003 - 23:59:13 MDT

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    Mike writes

    > <<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.

    Yeah, it'd probably cause you a coronary to actually admit that anyone
    else's view might be internally consistent, or be based on anything except
    obeisance to authority, ignorance, or evil intentions.

    Lee



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