tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post3920548813092463257..comments2023-10-24T04:43:53.179-04:00Comments on KGMom Musings: The Ghost of John Peter ZengerKGMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05165941950953938943noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-58284638264058243592009-09-15T15:40:55.602-04:002009-09-15T15:40:55.602-04:00Amen! We read the newspapers Online. For most of...Amen! We read the newspapers Online. For most of our news we listen to NPR and BBC. In the evening we watch Jim Lehrer. BTW: Have you noticed that the women on Jim Lehrer actually understand the subjects they are covering? And the actually report NEWS and ask reasonable questions? And they aren't necessarily beautiful with long legs and short skirts? AND, they have never once mentioned Jon and Kate?NCmountainwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615765649828716560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-90428424832777478482009-09-15T08:25:45.662-04:002009-09-15T08:25:45.662-04:00When we moved to Manitoba, I thought we would get ...When we moved to Manitoba, I thought we would get news that was less parochial. If anything, I discovered, CBC is worse than the American networks. They do have good news shows that cover some news in depth; but the basic news on the radio is aggressively Canadian-oriented, with little awareness that the rest of the world exists.<br /><br />I like most things about Canada better than in the USA, but I listen to NPR and read the BBC, and turn to CBC for lcoal news only.<br /><br />As a Western Canadian, I notice also that CBC sounds like the official organ of the Liberal Party. My own politics are Green; but I like some effort to treat all subjects with some fairness.<br /><br />End of rant!Climenheisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01989459133238230712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-29865273340726071862009-09-14T10:09:55.096-04:002009-09-14T10:09:55.096-04:00Oh, don't get me started. Being a news junkie ...Oh, don't get me started. Being a news junkie I get increasingly frustrated by the lack of detailed information. And on foreign news? Hah, unless hundreds of people die somewhere, there is no foreign news.<br /><br />That said, the Coast Guard REALLY screwed up. To have a training exercise on 9/11, right below the bridge where the President had just moments before driven across to get to the Pentagon...and not informing any federal or local police this was going on...IDIOTS!!possumladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08060146825196164963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-17134023974746106212009-09-14T06:43:28.924-04:002009-09-14T06:43:28.924-04:00American news channels are more interested in ente...American news channels are more interested in entertaining than news broadcasting. <br /><br />The BBC is unique among news organizations. Unlike the US the British had a real Empire so that Brits came to know places around the World intimately which has made them interested in what goes on in the World. The BBC has as its role that of educator of what goes on in the World. <br /><br />One cannot rely upon one source of news to be well informed of the events of the World. <br /><br />I wonder how many people in the US know where Zimbabwe is?<br /><br />Even in American news I find the most frustrating way it is presented is that they make things up as filler of time. When the facts are finally out they often do no stop repeating the conjectures they have been indulging in.Tossing Pebbles in the Streamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04354065895900279070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-86195800289977748742009-09-13T23:02:20.575-04:002009-09-13T23:02:20.575-04:00I cannot bear to watch CNN and have never seen Fox...I cannot bear to watch CNN and have never seen Fox News (we don't get it with our cable) BBC is my news site of choice. We get it on TV too.<br />The news we hear about the opposition to Health Care reform and the controversy about Obama's school speech leaves me speechless!!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15892804871759397018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-22212237655650072142009-09-13T19:23:20.736-04:002009-09-13T19:23:20.736-04:00I agree with you whole heartedly. The "spin&...I agree with you whole heartedly. The "spin" that is put on news changes depending upon the channel you watch. I've gotten where about all I will watch is C-Span... and Fox News is a definite no-no !Ginniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12749133391349265563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-71724757478995871022009-09-13T07:36:18.750-04:002009-09-13T07:36:18.750-04:00As if to add to my rant, today's closing parag...As if to add to my rant, today's closing paragraph in Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac says this, writing about the impeachment of President Bill Clinton:<br />"In the months that the Lewinsky scandal was dominating the press, the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were bombed, killing 224 people and injuring more than 4,500, and soon linked to Osama Bin Laden. During this same time period of the Lewinsky scandal, Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela, and Iraq announced that it would shoot down any U.S. or British planes patrolling the country's no-fly zones, the Euro was established, and the Chinese government announced that it was restricting Internet usage."<br /><br />Point made.KGMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165941950953938943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-30386841461713682702009-09-13T07:26:23.906-04:002009-09-13T07:26:23.906-04:00Isn't it the truth! I am right there on your ...Isn't it the truth! I am right there on your soap box with you Donna! Just this morning, in our local paper, where they publish small "rants" someone sent one in which said, "If the health plan is so great, why does it exempt the President, Congress, and the Senate?" HUH? It's almost as if no one really LISTENS to the donkey's mouth any longer, but relies on someone to interpret what the donkey said as gospel. It makes me CRAZY! And FOX <i>News</i>? Don't get me started.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057094040409159429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31402520.post-55070262325050612762009-09-13T00:04:43.641-04:002009-09-13T00:04:43.641-04:00I would tend to substitute a word that almost soun...I would tend to substitute a word that almost sounds like Fox, if I were to say Fox News.Anvilcloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974744042579564912noreply@blogger.com