On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:54:16 GMT, David Casey
wrote:

During the almost six years I lived in Germany, I enjoyed watching not just
US and German movies, but movies from all over the world dubbed in German.
I do miss that at times here in the states, but one thing I did notice was
how much American TV was all over the German TV networks. In fact, many of
my German friends were as addicted to shows like 90210, Melrose Place, The
A-Team (believe it or not!), Knight Rider, etc. as some folks in the US. I
had to sometimes explain, that life wasn't really like that back home.

The A-team are still going strong on RTL. there are a lot of German
channels free-to-air. Just wish I could understand more of the Arabic
channels to know what they really think.

The ability to acquire exceeds the ability to extract meaning.

DW provides an interesting European perspective on world news
as does Morocco who broadcast news in faultless Spanish and French.

Its interesting when there is a live news conference shown by a number
of stations what time delay is involved, and who shows the most.

BBC Parliament is also very interesting as one can watch the political
debates live, in full and without any spin added by journalists.

Particularly useful when they showed a repeat of Dr Kelly giving
evidence, which contrasted to the parts out of context the news
channels showed.
--
Jim Watt http://www.gibnet.com