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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by readme on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:09AM (#5164439)
I would be interested to know what percentage of average American TV news viewers could locate Iceland on a map if it was not labeled.
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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by grey-area on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:45AM (#5164651)
That would say something about the state of American education rather than the state of Iceland, if so.
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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by SG- on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:17AM (#5164490)
The same people likely couldn't point out a lot of other 'big' countries/continents or even US states, so I don't see what that argument proves.
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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by readme on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:43AM (#5165094)
My point is that TV news caters to the lowest common denominator of brains so they aren't going to tell everyone about a country they can't locate on a map. That is of course, unless, there are "terrorists" there, or Israel is involved.
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