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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: April 15, 2002 It's Not Americans That Arabs Hate (Business Week) -- "Indeed, Arab and Islamic countries are more enthusiastic about old-fashioned Yankee capitalism than they are about American concepts of freedom and democracy. Most Muslims think highly of U.S.-made products, particularly American technology, scientific advances, and American films and TV.
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Article says: "large numbers of Muslims described the U.S. as unfriendly, untrustworthy, and easily provoked." Jack says: Dang, we see eye to eye. That's how I'd describe our government too. Unfriendly: Department of Motor Vehicles
What's the difference between government progagenda in USSR and in US ? American believe it! There's no place in the world who think US foreign policy is clean. How can the US government hope to change arabe point of view when even us, in Canada, there closest allies, think the same way about america? Posted by: Richard Lehoux on April 15, 2002 12:46 PM
I admit, in looking for cable/broadcast news on the Jenin massacre, I could not find it. After reading about it from non-U.S. web media Sunday night, then watching the first 10 minutes of NBC's Today Show on Monday morning, I wondered about the difference between government-controlled and corporate-controlled media. Yeah, ok, corporate media is actually a lot more open, but when it wants to obscure a story, it does it with ease. Posted by: Jack Schonchin on April 15, 2002 01:41 PM
For those of you who are interested in this topic I recommend you read Noam Chomsky. He has very clearly explained how goverments (especially US) use the media to propogate their thoughts and fill our minds with all kinds of sluggish US propaganda...
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