My GOD, that link is hilarious!!! :lol:
A true example of fine, unbiased, Amurkhan journalism!
Thank you, but I'll stick to watching my "leftist" CBC, rather than your fair American stations that "only report what their government tells them to because they can't ignore it" (generalnmx). Or in OTHER WORDS, act as propaganda stations that broadcast every single white lie that the government tells them to broadcast, without showing the other side of the story (I'm talking about then, not now; now is election time, and they have to try to be nice to both parties because they don't know which one will stay in power). I mean, really, they never questioned ANYTHING that their government told them. You may call it patriotism, but I call it stupidity.
At least here in Canada we have "the passionate eye" on CBC, which from time to time shows something important about how people in other places live. All that USA stations showed during the war were endless reruns of the same pictures, with NO INFO on how this was affecting Iraqis, and almost no good shots of anything in Iraq or Afghanistan other than tanks and planes (one CNN Presents special was quite good, though; about a battle in Afghanistan in a fort).
We met someone, for example, who was sent to Afghanistan by an American news station, and told to photograph those "caves" which we were told all the terrorists were hiding in. After he spent a long time looking for caves, he finally contacted them and told them that there WERE no caves, that they hid in buildings and what few caves there were left over from the Russian occupation. The news station, obviously, was not very pleased. They would have preffered to have something which corresponded with the government's statement that terrorists hid in caves.
Eventually, sometime later, somebody on CNN finally managed to find a cave and shoot a few seconds of footage inside it. They then replayed that same footage over and over again for more than a month, of the same cave.
Obviously, this cave was far more interesting than shots of what the country was actually like, and how the people were affected by the war, what they thought, etc.
