I went to their web-site to check. The announcer did dub Chavez a "communist" in a very matter-of-fact way, as if all Important People In The Know would agree. Party Line thinking.
I wrote: > I was driving and vaguely listening to the public radio news show "the > World." They were talking about popular attitudes toward Chavez and > Ahmadinejad (who was mourning Chavez) and it sure sounded like they > referred to Chavez as a "secular communist." Did they really say that? > What are they smoking? > > I fnd that "the World" (produced by the BBC, Boston's WGBH radio, and > Public Radio International) to much more dogmatic than NPR News, i.e., > much more likely to toe the U.S. State Department's Party Line. For > example, a story on Iran on NPR is more likely to have some dissenting > view on the subject (though usually not very far away from the > official Line). > > I agree with Juan Cole that the Chavez foreign policy (including > alliances with such creeps as Ahmadinejad) was quite poor. However, as > they say, politics makes strange bedfellows. The leaders of countries > that receive massed hatred aimed by the US feel they have to stick > together. But is the enemy of my enemy really my friend? > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
