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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (69869)	4/17/2003 8:03:41 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 70976

ref earlier, synchronous answer on USA culture. If USA one day has a well defined moderate center, or a couple of well defined extreme parties, things would be different. Until that one has to adapt to crossfire, 1997(6?) telecom act freed AM-radio and the debates in the USA congress.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (69869)	4/17/2003 8:12:48 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 70976

That is, the telecom act of 1996(7?) freed broadcasting stations, media of the legal responsibility of being "unbiased" That is, the way it is supposed to be in functional, well defined multi-party-systems, but maybe a mistake in 2-party systems, especially when mostly built on gerrymandering. (in Uk they do not do USA-style gerrymandering, but on the other hand, they are busy reforming their 2-party system, and even worse, have been fighting Murdoch for already a generation, Thatcher-agreement in 1982, similar to Newt in 1996(7?)) However, UK is once again forced to dig into North Ireland, a trully true painful unwilling process. Not everyne is blessed with a civil war in their front yard, willingly or not, but the media and the citizens as well as their neurons are affected, deeply in the long run.