Re: [Swprograms] DOUBLE STANDARDS!

["rmonty23" <rmonty23@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very well said, Jim.
Funny how the rest of the world bashes the US constantly, yet they keep
coming.  Cuba does the best job of them all, yet Cubans try every idea in
the book to get to the US.  Some are rather creative, Chevy trucks and old
Buick's converted into boats.  So there must be something good about this
country for so many to risk life to get here.

I don't really understand why the BBC has been bashing the US so much of
late.  The past few years it has really been a little nerving.  I recall a
female reporter interviewing an Iraqi Mother of two children, a month or two
after the fall of Baghdad, and the reporter tried her best to get the Iraqi
to say something negative about the US.  She kept correcting the reporter as
she did not find her statements to be what she had experienced.  She was a
little disappointed her kids could not get more recent games for their Sony
X2 game box, however.

I prefer RNZI!
Bob Montgomery
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Strader" <jimstrader@xxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] DOUBLE STANDARDS!


> Paul,
>
> I didn't watch the show and can think of no reason why CBS
> decided to air the picture of a dying Princess Diana.
> But, I do take exception to your statement that "people
> who watch American TV are operating double standards".
>
> The average American has NO say as to what the networks
> decide to air. I also haven't met a single person who
> saw the Janet Jackson  and got as irate as the right wing
> news channels and the FCC. It's all a game by the present
> administration to divert attention away from their debacle
> in Iraq.
>
> I don't think I would ever assume that the citizens of Great Britain
> are at all responsible for the "America Bashing" being spun by the
> BBC since 911. I had hoped that this would change with the recent
> resignations
> at the BBC, but it still continues. In 40 years of listening to the BBC,
the
> last three years have been full of contempt for Americans. The best
examples
> I can think of offhand are 1) a BBC reporter, reporting from Foxwoods
Casino
> on the success of the American Indian Casino's, made the blunt statement
> that
> the casino was filled with "Typical OVERWEIGHT and POORLY DRESSED
> Americans".
> 2) the BBC correspondent denying that the Americans had made it to
Baghdad,
> because he couldn't see any Americans and he said it was typical American
> propaganda.
> I'm listening to this while watching LIVE pictures of US Tanks rolling
> though the
> streets of Baghdad on CBS T.V. That's the day the BBC World Service made
my
> shit list
> where it still remains.
>
> I blame this on the BBC, not the listeners.
>
> I also find it amazing that three weeks ago I watched a few different
> European & Middle
> Eastern TV Stations via Satellite Dish showing uncut footage of 4
Americans
> being dragged
> from a couple of burning vehicles and CHOPPED into pieces with shovels by
> smiling Iraqis.
> The American TV stations did not show this horror. Where's all the outrage
> for that?
>
>
>
> peace to all
> jim strader
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul David" <pauldavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:06 PM
> Subject: [Swprograms] DOUBLE STANDARDS!
>
>
> CBS TV is being rightly crucified in the UK by no less a person than Tony
> Blair for showing pictures of Princess Diana dying after the car crash in
> Paris in 1997.  The people who watch American TV are clearly operating
> double standards here.  Firstly, they round on CBS for daring to show
Janet
> Jackson's breasts, an incident so trivial it hardly deserves comment.  Yet
a
> couple of months later they sit in front of their TV screens watching many
> of the same CBS stations showing the sickening pictures of Princess Diana.
> I hope and trust that those of you in the USA reading this message did not
> stoop so low as to watch your local CBS affiliates last night.
>
> Certainly if I was a watcher of CBS TV in the States I would be writing to
> my local affiliate leaving them in no doubt that they should not have
shown
> such pictures, which surely go beyond the pale!
>
> Now, back to the short-wave wireless.
> PAUL DAVID,
> Wembley Park, United Kingdom>
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