--- Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A common and noble US sentiment. The problem is that the rest of the > world > thinks (with some justification) that the US has replaced government > censorship with the commercial 'censorship' of the news networks. > Resulting > in, perhaps, an equally slanted view on things. Which is worse? > > It is a difficult problem to know what the truth is. And now that news > is > global, the rest of the world sees what news is reported to people in > the > US. > > Another thing is that there are many countries in the world with the > same > (and - yes - more) freedoms as the US. The US has to stop thinking > they have > a monopoly on the stuff. In fact, people need to re-evaluate where the > US > ranks in freedoms. The immediate reaction is always "at the top". This > has, > of course, been historically true. But what about today? > > Many countries criticizing the US absolutely do NOT fall into the > category > of countries described in the post above. And the US is setting itself > up to > join the list of countries that do. (OK, a bit of an overreaction, > perhaps. > But I will reserve judgment on that,)
I don't disagree. Human Rights Watch, for the first time ever, ranked the US amongst its list of countries with the greatest erosion in human rights for the year, 2002. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
