MNI --or should I say Neocon? Just fooling!
You said: So I concede although you didn't give me better reasons than the silly TV-programme idea of yours.
Whether these TV-programmes are silly or not is not relevant! The point is that 99% of European couch potatoes rely on TV-news programmes to make up their minds about events such as the Kosovo crisis or the bombing of US embassies in East Africa. Remember that, while over 50% of US households enjoy an Internet connection, only 20% of French households own a PC! And the same ratio roughly applies in all of Western Europe.
But please now tell me what is the effect of it with regard to the Kosovo crisis?
Just browse through my former posts on this thread and on the World War III thread. Currently the media focus is almost exclusively on these poor, traumatized Belgradians who have to run for cover every day.... Think about it: they're quietly sipping a Turkish coffee somewhere at a downtown terrace and bang! air-raid sirens start wailing! It's a rotten life!
Meanwhile, you've got all those ethnic Albanians having the life of Riley in their five-star campsites! Hey, those who made it in the campsite supplied by the United Arab Emirates are eligible for THREE hot meals per day --along with satellite TV and a warmed swimming pool! What are they grumbling about?!
That's the sort of feeling the European media are currently instilling into their audiences... And that's why I believe the current stalemate in Kosovo bodes ill for the future of Europe's minorities (ie North Africans, Romans/Gypsies, Turks, and suchlike).
Regards,
Gustave. |
