Re:Apple boycotts Fox News because of Glenn Beck
by CWuestefeld on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @09:33AM
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Somewhat tangentially, it's interesting to watch news when traveling abroad. Even aside from Fox, the stuff you're like to see is quite a bit different even from CNN.
The international perspective is quite a bit different from that of Americans. I don't mean that (only) in the sense that we tend to be America-centric. It's also in the way the stories are told, and indeed what stories lead and how much time is spent on them.
I can't recall any specific examples, and it wasn't obvious on just a short viewing, but over a period of time I was very much struck by the difference.
Re:Apple boycotts Fox News because of Glenn Beck
by dhyasama on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @09:30AM
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I couldn't agree more. I traveled to Croatia a few years ago and stayed with locals. One of the first things each of them said was some variation of "I don't like George Bush." Simply saying "I don't either" brightened them up considerably.
Re:Apple boycotts Fox News because of Glenn Beck
by jdminhbg on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @10:53AM
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It's kind of sad to be so narrowly defined by politics like that.
I'm not really interested in being friends with someone who would dislike me due to someone there's a 75% chance (totals + participation) I didn't vote for. Which doesn't even begin to scrape the surface of the importance of knowing and talking to people with opposing views in the first place.
Many of my friends and colleagues here at home are some of the most wonderful, intelligent, caring people I have met anywhere on the globe, and it does them a great injustice to let people around the world judge the US based on what they see or hear on TV.
It's the responsibility of those of us that travel to spread the good word of the reasonable US Citizen!