Richard Baker wrote: > > > In your opinion, are the European media more > biased than the US media? In my opinion, the > British media, at least, are considerably more > balanced than those US news channels I see (CNN, > Fox). I can't speak for newspapers though - I > just read the (London) Sunday Times, New > Scientist and sometimes the Economist. >
Fox News, IMHO, is a total waste of spectrum. They have the lunch-room TV at work tuned to it in such a way that you can't change the channel... On Friday, they spent 5 - 10 minutes every hour on a segment on the Laci Petersen case. The news: The judge placed a gag order, so there is no news, and not likely to be any for a while. They followed this with a segment called "80 seconds around the world", in which the top stories were: China is getting ready to launch a manned rocket, Some guy in India is giving away water to people around his neighborhood for free, and Some crocodiles in Brazil were captured for release into the wild who got stuck in a fountain. Don't even get me started on the topic of balanced political coverage. How they make any money with such crap goes a long way towards arguing against the notion that free market anything is automatically better. -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
