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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Television coverage
Message-ID: <3055@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 14:57:42 EST
Article-I.D.: mnetor.3055
Posted: Mon Feb 10 14:57:42 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Feb-86 16:21:50 EST
References: <11627@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <15019@rochester.UUCP> <192@sivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <192@sivax.UUCP> jim@sivax.UUCP (Jim Boman) writes:
>To the author of this dribble:
You're dribbling yourself.

>And, if I may be permitted to get my digs in, it is thinking of people
>who hold your views that would prefer that TV and the press suppress 
>information at their discretion, and only show us, perhaps, what the 
>government would like us to see? Why don't you go to Canada or the
>Soviet Union if you'd like to have your information controlled. 

Canada???!!!  At the risk of starting *this* *again*...

There is *no* Government politically-oriented censorship in this country.  
(Or, at least not quite as bad as some of the stuff we've heard from below 
the border - eg. McCarthy)

Only what the Canadian Government would like us to see?  Actually, it's
the exact opposite - we're mainly seeing what the Government *doesn't*
want us to see (eg: "Tunagate", "Nielsongate", we even have our own
"Strippergate").

I'm sure that our Government would just love to be able to impose the
same sort of restrictions that governments the US supports or have
supported (eg: Marcos, Baby Doc) are enforcing.  Then we wouldn't have
lost so many embarrassed Department Ministers.

Gee, I wonder if we could get the RCMP to support US contras?  (*grin*)

After all, we do get USENET don't we?

By the way, I was quite proud of the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) 
coverage of the shuttle disaster.  It was in far, far better taste than what
I heard was the norm in the US.
-- 
Chris Lewis,
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