Subj : Re: Huh... To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 00:35:35 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote: > Jim Larson wrote: > >> Nick wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote: >>> >>>> Nick wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jim Larson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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.) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Around here I have seen stories about gang beatings and rapes, >>>>> and those stories are from inside the superdome. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I've seen those stories too, but mostly in the foreign press. >>>> However, I will readily admit that statement is anecdotal. I've >>>> only glanced at the LA Times a few times recently. And the >>>> national TV news is hardly a fair comparison. >>>> >>>> So...basically, ignore most of what I said above. (Note: This >>>> applies to every post I've made in the last however many years >>>> I've been posting on ATF.) >>>> >>> >>> We, in Baton Rouge and the surrounding area, probably see more >>> than most people because our ABC and CBS stations have been >>> running 24 hour coverage since it happened. So we get a lot of >>> local stuff in addition to the national coverage. >>> >> >> Apropos of nothing at all, how do folks down there pronounce >> Baton Rouge...all Frenchy or like "batten rooj"? >> > > I ask because a couple of days ago there was some guy on NPR who > pronounced it full out French. I didn't catch whether he was a > local, but I've never heard anyone say it like that who wasn't > doing a fake Cajun accent. Funny you should mention the Cajuns. We were just talking about how everything is doubled over into Spanish these days but a short time ago the Cajun children were forced to learn English before they were allowed in school. .