On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:16:13PM -0700, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > Which I don't necessarily disagree with - but it also doesn't _begin_ > to explain the insanity of asking if Americans are being arrested for > criticizing Bush.
It does sound rather out of touch. As much as I dislike Bush's policies on justice and civil rights, I wouldn't accuse him of that. But I regularly read The Economist, and I don't see much obvious distortion there. I don't listen to BBC radio, but I do read BBC news articles about world events. I haven't seen any obvious distortion in the top news stories on the BBC website. > Heck, I work with plenty of Europeans, and I've seen the same thing > myself. I'm not sure its fair to equate the opinions of a BBC reporter to those of the general European population. I would expect a BBC reporter to be in touch with what is going on in America. I wouldn't necessarily expect the same from any European (have you ever watched daytime television in America? I've had a bad cold for going on 48 hours now and I've been watching -- there are an amazing number of out of touch people on these talk shows) [Unless, of course, you are talking about Europeans whose JOB it is to know accurately what is going on around the world. If so, disregard what I wrote] -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
