--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Jeee, I feel better now that I said that... because it weighted on my stomach very much :-)
Good.
Now something that will make you understand a little bit more:
The US public knows very little, and is basically a bunch of industrialized farmers.
The 5% that know what's going on know that English is just one of many languages. But they are not the audience of the NPR and regular news. NPR has this agenda (lofty I agree) to pull the unwashed masses out of their self-inflicted morass. Regular news are for-profit. Neither are targeting their news to the 5%.
I would not be surprised to hear that NPR editors flesh out their stories by visiting wikipedia. (I have a sneaking suspicion they might).
The typical American would be stunned to hear that there are more than 3,000 languages with more than 1,000,000 speakers each in the world today.
The typical American is brutish, swift to revenge and slow to understand. This is why the news is watered down for them, otherwise they just turn away with a blank stare in their eyes.
I get CCTV here, and their international news coverage is spectacular. (CCTV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television)
Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell chris_mahan@yahoo.com chris.mahan@gmail.com http://www.christophermahan.com/
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