[StealthChild]

" The dumbing down of the media was the slippery slope that led to the dumbing down of America."

Yet another tribute to the Clinton legacy...America's 8-year affair with their 3-ring circus government left them asleep at the wheel.

[gcruse]

 Since the end of the Cold War, the constant melodrama of
trivia, from Tonya Harding to Monica Lewinsky and from O.J.
Simpson to Gary Condit, blinded us to the new forces shaping
the developing world.

And yet, Clinton's treason remains unreported
to this very day.  Do you think that will change?

Following the twin victories in the Cold War and the Gulf War, editors and TV
producers, in their infinite wisdom, decided that Americans don’t care about
foreign news and focused instead on less expensive
to cover domestic melodramas.

Maybe it got worse, but it sure didn't start then.  I lived in Canada during
the seventies and was amazed, even then, at how little international news
Americans received as opposed to Canadians.

The dumbing down of the media was the slippery slope that led to the dumbing
down of America.

No, the dumbing down of education led to a nation of nationalistic illiterates
who could not be bothered to look beyond the borders.

ARNAUD de BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor At Large

I'm not impressed.

[pierrem15]

The press is to blame much more directly than that: if you read French and German papers or chats as I do, you'll see every vile slander generated by the leftist America-haters in our own midst repeated ad nauseum all over the world.

And becuase these lies (like the slander that the US is responsible for startved Iraqi children) are repeated verbatim in 'reputable' Western news sources, these slanders are believed all over the non-Western world.

[TigerLikesRooster]

While Clinton crowd were busy plundering Russia and Eastern Europe nations, doing a little empire building in Balkans and Caucasus with the help of Bin Laden cohorts, the cancer was metasizing in Muslim world. But nobody wanted to pop the insane Wall St. bubble. The bubble is still around, although it deflated a bit. Now

the bubble is taken hostage by Bin Laden.

The question is then:

How much American blood is the bubble worth ?

[OldFriend]

Aside from ABC which prints news from the PLO fax line, all the other media print only that news which it gets from the DNC.

[gaspar]

When America's best reporter speaks, we should listen carefully. For certain the big three major Television networks have failed to inform the people, and in their attempt to "catch up" to events in the Middle East and South Asia Brokaw, Jennings and Rather fill the screen as tired, old, fatuous men who, if the networks had any sense, should be retired along with their producers and other flacks.

[nothingnew]

I like almost all this guy wrote...reminds me of Vazsonyi...the foriegners out of dictatorships seem to see things more clearly...wonder why that is?(heh heh heh)

FMCDH

[Sawdring]

Great article. Thanks for the post.