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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (1777)	7/3/2004 8:04:47 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 2772

Red, X says if you don't ban conservative thoug ht, he is leaving. And the repubs are for censorship. What can I say. I fear the lefts interpretation of the first amendment, thank god for the 2nd amendment

To: American Spirit who wrote (1777)	7/3/2004 8:44:46 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2772

Well, I thought I made the point that both NPR and two-party systems are basically dysfunctional, at best just funny. Includes both the congressional NPR budget fights, all the attacks and all the other funnies, including the corporative sponsorships and the begging sprees. Luckily our constitution defines both - a proportional representation, multy-party system, as well as - the constitutional task of the governemt this elected to keep the citizens informed Resulting in a reality that our "NPR" has a 75% popularity among the citizens while the commercial ones struggle with their support. However, both have their tasks. Even BBC is struggling, as UK does not even have a constitution and even signing the EU constitution seem to be too much for them. That is, these "media" issues have been debated within EU from the very start (BBC and the Murdoch networks often function as scary EU-examples) PS I try to keep up on the funnies about NPR as I enjoyed it for many years in USA. Due to this thing called "copyrights" the media which tend to have "right to copy" tend to "quote" and "air" each other. Additionally they are very active in airing their programs over internet, due to that copyright policy. US C-SPAN is another good example, although very limited in "editorial content". (but historically going back to the days Nixon started to dream of all those conservative think-tanks) PPS hmm, lets see if I can find it.. the famous Guthrie copyright... yes: "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." geocities.com Much more difficult with all those advertisements..