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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (85048)	3/22/2003 9:31:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So if you have a dish and can get the English programs from Asia and continental Europe, you should not miss the opportunity. If nothing else, they provide an alternate perspective. Here's a link to a website that keeps up with the British media's reporting on Iraq. epeus.blogspot.com I can't vouch for it. Just discovered it in on Dave Winer's blog. Dave's tastes are generally pretty good, however. He's here. scripting.com

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (85048)	3/23/2003 7:13:49 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

So if you have a dish and can get the English programs from Asia and continental Europe, you should not miss the opportunity. If nothing else, they provide an alternate perspective. I get the francophone channels on Echostar including Belgium, Switzerland, etc, and it's pretty much solidly anti-American, you'd think bin Laden's goal to get the entire world against the USA is succeeding. I don't really pay much of any attention to usual US media and don't care what they say, and in fact get more info from the web than any media, that right there gives a totally different perspective. It's pretty naive to expect any unbiased reporting in major media, so I don't consider it anything to get excited about. Some of what's on TV seems to hit amazing levels of "dumbing down", but through the ages there's been discontent with the press, it's mostly a means of entertainment and it's always been one's own responsibility to look for the truth. Modern communication channels don't fundamentally change anything in this regard. The day the Ashcrofts and others like him start blocking free internet access the way China is doing is when I'll worry but I don't see that happening.