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To: Thomas M. who wrote (35417)	5/7/2009 11:33:59 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "You can get a wider range of domestic opinions in Lebanese newspapers than in America. Tom" That's interesting, Tom. I hadn't thought about it that way but I suppose that you are right. (American media has been increasingly homogenized... corporate mergers, cross-ownership and the Info-tainment focus away from hard news has produced exactly what you allude to --- a banality in our news, a sameness.) However --- to extrapolate from the same observation that you made, there are quite a number of clearly sectarian and propagandistic news outlets in Lebanon (some owned and operated by Syrian allied factions, others by different factions and sects...) --- and I would not necessarily want to see the problem of 'blandness in American news' "solved" by the introduction of evermore extreme propaganda outlets. So... I suppose that's a coin with at least TWO faces, Thomas. :-)