"Jim Watt" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:38:33 -0700, "TinCanMan"
wrote:

I also have a broadband connection and know where the leading news
sources
reside.

That makes two of us, and as a lot of my work these days is with
news organisations and their systems.

You missed the point. I have broadband NET access and I have no TV or TV
tuner on my PC. I get much of my news from the electronic version of the
print media. Some direct from Reuters, AP, AFP and the other agencies.


Also do not confuse the access to television you have tightly
controlled by cable companies to what I have from an array
of dishes.

Before Dubya bombed it I could watch Iraq television direct.

OK, I see. Uropeen TV good. U.S. TV bad. Talk about prejudice. I think those
yorkshireman have had a bad influence on you. Let me make this as simple as
possible. All television is entertainment. Yours, mine, everybody's. There
is no such thing as an authorative, independent news source on the telly.
It's entertainment!


Sorry, I have 20 some years traveling both the Atlantic and Pacific rims.
I
have first hand experience in both the civilized and the not so civilized
world and I have lived in the four corners of the U.S. I have no
illusions
as to reality.

My experience is of course based on living in a hole in the road with
four yorkshiremen.

If you say so.

Bagdad had a lot of very nice modern buildings before it was bombed
by the Bush family.

Yes, all built on the misery of the populace and owned and inhabited by
the
friends and family of Sadam. Wonder how many of the missing are buried in
the walls or floors? Well, probably not too many, they had mass graves
for
them. Much more civilized, eh?

I smell prejudice here.

Pot... Kettle... Black. Sorta like being a television elitist, eh? Or maybe
you think yourself above yorkshireman?