The Null Device

Polls show that most Americans prefer to be kept in dark, fed bullshit as far as the Afghan conflict goes anyway:
Leslie Bennetts, writing in the current edition of Vanity Fair, says that "Americans like a simple storyline that makes it easy to decide who the good guys are and who the bad guys are and the byzantine tangle of international politics, Islamic fundamentalism and American foreign policy is making many citizens unused to grappling with such headache-inducing complexities want to throw up their hands." Bennetts suggests that "American newspapers and television companies have reduced their foreign coverage by 70 to 80% during the last 15 to 20 years in response to corporate demands for profits."

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Posted by: shauny http://shauny.org/pussycat Wed Dec 5 22:35:07 2001

hmm what a surprising finding :P