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To: tejek who wrote (278078)	3/3/2006 5:16:09 PM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1572970

My EU friends continue to say that now. Americans have a reputation for being stupid about foreign affairs and how this country behaves in the world. The media knows that and acts accordingly. Sure, and you no doubt heard exactly that very same thing over there when war monger "Cowboy Reagan" was in office. Well, don't we know how his politics took care of the cold war problem and how wrong those EU friends and in particular those Yankee hating Germans were back then? Taro

To: tejek who wrote (278078)	3/3/2006 7:11:15 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

"I am beginning to think the latter. And whose fault is that? Isn't it the fault of Americans for not expecting better? Isn't the media giving us what we want?" It is clearly the latter, it started in the 1970s. There were a lot of complaints that the media focussed on the negative stuff and avoided airing more uplifting stories. Of course, the problem is uplifting stories aren't really news, and real news is often negative. It got worse during the Reagan administration, along with railing about the liberal media. Now that so much of the media is owned by a relatively small handful of companies...