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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (619050)	7/12/2011 2:40:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580148

Ted, you're just basing your opinion on how newspapers weren't more vehemently against the Iraq war from the beginning. The fact is that the newspapers were the first to turn on Bush the moment the Iraq war started to drag on beyond "Mission Accomplished." AFTER the American population was getting fed up. There is always a strong coalition between newspapers and the population they serve. Rarely does a paper take a stance contrary to its constituency. I was only talking of UK papers. I don't know any other language well enough to discern a newspaper's ideology. Do you? Not too hard to assume that newspapers in China and the Middle East are going to be very "conservative." True. The more advanced a culture becomes the more liberal it becomes. The West leads the world in advancement of both technology and democracy so it tends to be the most liberal. However, I still say I can't say for 100% certainty that all papers outside the West are conservative.....for no other reason than I don't know any other language well enough to make that determination. In Korea, newspapers are conservative because of decades-old influences by government. Such influence would be sacriledge here, but there it's a way of life. It doesn't surprise me. Korea has been a true democracy for only a short period of time. They are still finding their way.