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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,comp.misc
Subject: Re: HELP ME (*Oh, what a flame for JJ@Portal*)
Message-ID: <120@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 04:29:42 GMT
References: <386@blic.BLI.COM> <113@dcs.UUCP> <3939@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <1988Jun17.172408.17658@ziebmef.uucp>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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In article <1988Jun17.172408.17658@ziebmef.uucp> becker@ziebmef.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>In article <113@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
>| In article <386@blic.BLI.COM> ruthb@blic.BLI.COM (Ruth Bevan) writes:
>| >While Canada is no Utopia, I assure you they see a lot less of government
>| >intervention than we do. Their news isn't censored to give an unbelievable
>| >pro-American slant on all international issues, ...
>| 
>| I fail to see any pro-American slant in news reporting in this country ...
>Try looking at american news from a Canadian perspective sometime.
>I don't think american news is "censored", it is just "managed" along the
>lines of the current US belief system... not everyone shares those beliefs.

Ruth Bevan's posting (which I hadn't kept around, but which is sufficiently
completely quoted above) clearly implies that U.S. news is "censored"  by
means of "government intervention". 

While I stand by what I said about an anti-American slant in the US media,
because that's what I have observed, I admit that others may be reading other
papers, magazines, TV stations, etc, and come away with a different opinion.

I will also grant that the American media are largely indifferent to 
the rest of the world, but that's not quite the same issue.

My main objection was to the charge of government censorship, which is a 
far cry from editorial decisions based on the owner's or editor's beliefs.

I still maintain that it is slanderous and rude to imply that a newspaper's 
or other medium's editorial stance is due to censorship or other insidious
outside pressures, even if Ms. Bevan feels that this makes me rude and
slanderous.
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