Re: Galloway rips a new one
On Aug 10, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
[WS:] I do not watch much television, but I wonder if such an
interview would be aired here. That is, the US networks may fell quite
comfortable airing raging right wing lunatics making all kinds of outrageous
statements, but if someone left-of-the center goes beyond voicing timid
disagreement or simply serving as a punching boy for raging rightwingers, he would
be booed off the stage by the host, or altogether yanked from the air, no?
Methinks that private US media are better censored than state owned media
elsewhere, no?
Yup. Years ago, I talked with a producer who did some spots for the
MacNeil-Lehrer Report. He’d gotten information that the U.S. let
Syria pick up abandoned Iraqi weapons after the first Gulf War,
which, if reported, might have made some people very unhappy. The
producer couldn’t get a US government official to comment on the
report on camera. So, MacNeil-Lehrer wouldn’t run the sport - becuase
they couldn’t even get an official denial from the US government.
That’s how slavish our media are.
Doug