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Originally Posted by Skybird
So those of you who waited to hear me complaining about Germany as strong as I do about american politics again will have little satisfaction, I'm sorry.  |
Not so much "complain", as much as just "discuss".
CNN is such a huge organization, they translate into Chinese and Hindi. On top of that, it pipes out a tremendous amount of internal American news. So, the damn INDIANS end up knowing more about John Ashcroft's or Cindy Sheenan's latest antics, than a lot of Americans.
If I could get the Indian Channel, I would totally watch it. I'd watch the German Channel. Discovery Channel Theatre comes close, but they certainly pick and choose what to show you; plus, lately, the fundamentalist Christians have gotten them to blur out boobs and butts and statues. :rotfl:
If I learned Hindi, if I learned French, if I learned Russian and German and Danish and Chinese and Japanese and Italian, I could just read it off the internet. So, to this extent, you get CNN in your native language. Since all media is necessarily biased because you can't air
every story that exists, the vast majority of the world gets a fairly tilted part of America, via CNN.
Same thing happens with the Palestinians, for example. CNN doesn't show the propaganda stuff with a Palestinian getting "shot", loaded into the ambulance and rushed to the hospital; only to turn right around in the next film, and load one of his fellow "militants" into some other ambulance. Nor does CNN report on the Palestinian news crews when they interview a 7 year old Palestinian boy, asking the question "are you prepared to die?" -- then nodding a yes to the boy in order for him to understand which answer they wish for him to give to the camera.
It's just interesting. I prefer non-politically-correct views of German issues. I like the raw data, without interpretation.