>>>>That's one of my biggest beefs with the media today. I'm amazed at how a network will use their own correspondents and commentators as 'experts.'
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>>>They are cheaper than real experts, and are guaranteed not to insert anything that the owners won't like. Perfect for the job.
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>>>>However, he is not accurate in his portrayal of The Daily Show as more reliable for news than anything on TV because Jon Stewart also focuses only on those political issues that he can bring satire to. Also, PBS is hardly a more reliable news source. It is better than most in its documentaries, but for news, well, it leans a certain way as well...
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>>>PBS has news? News Hour with Jim Lehrer (there are other programs too)
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>>>BTW, why is it that PBS and NPR have only BBC news, but none from any other sources or countries? Also, when was the last time anyone saw a full hour of television produced in any other country but USA or UK?
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>>>There was Euroquest for a while, but it's been gone for months.
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>>That's what cable is for. :)
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>So the one percent of people, i.e. less than a half of those who are aware that there is any world beyound the 50+UK actually have to pay extra to hear any mention of these places unless there's something with at least 50 dead at once, or at least 200 people rallying against a government the establishment here doesn't like, or an owner of a business there wants to package an ad as a report and stages an event there - but we then only see his hotel and invitees and the local servants (elected or not ;).
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>The remainin 97% have no clue that other countries make their own movies, have their own TV, radio, play their own music... of course they could all rush to the cable and drive the demand for foreign content endlessly. When will that happen, exactly?

I'm willing to bet that the majority of people now have cable or satellite or even internet tv, and listen to music either on satellite radio or the internet. The amount of foreign content is unlimited. My daughter and her friends (myself included) watch foreign films all the time and listen to music from other countries regularly. What America are you living in ? :o) They even get most of their news from the internet these days...

I think there are a lot of people watching foreign film and keeping up with the news, but then there are a lot of folks who could care less about foreign film and only care about foreign news if it affects them here at home.