Fwd: Blocked By The BBC

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From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk <at> gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Subject: Fwd: Blocked By The BBC
To: a-list <at> greenhouse.economics.utah.edu

I remember Dan Rather, David Cronkite and many others greater.  When CNN
news first started as Ted's Turner's baby, I watched sometimes all day and
night.  When he was bought out was the beginning of the end of free
journalism and the beginning of mandatory scripted news. The passion for
articulating real news was never ever be allowed again.  The bought out CNN
was just that, bought out, gutted and replaced with saleability, nice suits
and skirts, good elocution, and the effort to explain the news to the
listener as if they could otherwise not be able to understand it at all, or
just badly.   That same philosophy is behind that program today. The world
news out of the West is blocked by Washington since Ted Turner sold CNN.
 No-one ever challenges the shpiel on the program where the pretty young
woman whose face and voice you now know well, is shown between segments
telling the audience :"Let us explain the news for you!" A smile and
earnestness in the voice, the voice tones arching up in pleasure and again
earnestness.  Blond or black shiny locks move in tandem to the earnest
appeal, the eyes gleaming with promise.  Before CNN was sold I only noticed
the news and those who articulated it well.  I think this description sort
of encapsulates how news has changed.

Here is another one: The old Atlas Magazine was bought out and a magazine
set up that took the most pressing world issues and would print quotes from
newspapers around the world to give a perspective one could use to figure
out what  the issue really meant. Like say the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen
in Tokyo, in Frankfurt,  Teheran and in Brazil...for instance.   The