Subj : Re: Huh... To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 00:12:07 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Mark Nobles wrote: > Jim Larson wrote: > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4211320.stm >> >> Seems we're[1] not well loved abroad. Interesting though. Also, is it >> just me or does the apparent violence seem to be downplayed or at least >> sanitized in the U.S. media? > > It's just you. The media I have been watching have been making it > appear that the police are fighting the battle of New Orleans against > heavily-armed gang warlords. It's Mogadishu with water instead of sand. > Woohoo! I knew I was weird. (It's the lack of detail that distinguishes one from the other. What you said above is the sum total of what I hear from the U.S. media. This is fine as far as it goes, and perhaps appropriate given that we're still in the middle of it all.) -- Jim .