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Just heard at 10.15p.m. PST about the launch. Not from a News station but from Vin Scully as an aside from the Dodgers/Brewers baseball game.

Immediately switched to FOX just in time to see Geraldo and some female extolling the performance of Michelle, ma belle, in outshining the wife of the French President....had to switch to CNN (barf) to get coverage of this major international event.

Another black eye for FOX - I am so disappointed in them.

I tuned into CNN International (aka CNNi) at about 1am ET... Christianne Ammanpour and a bunch of talking heads were on live discussing how this launch is all the fault of the Bush administration. They were almost literally rubbing their hands with glee...

America is generally not engaged (with attention nor interest) in foreign things that might well impact the Republic until it is too late and then we have planes going into buildings or Japanese Zeros bombing our battleships. And then palpitating, cluesless people are doofus-ly on the air waves in the announcer's seat, looking into the camera saying "Where in the Heck did THAT come from!!?" (Doh!) (Unless you live on or near a US military base), truly, how many of your friends and neighbors back there at the grassroots (Joe Sixpack) even know the fact that 38,000 fellow Americans, all in uniform, are living and working right now in range of North Korean Taepodongs and Scuds, and this missile flight over Japan actually went very close to a major American US Air Base called "Misawa" in Japan, with thousands of airmen there in potential danger? And nary a peep of this nor do many of your neighbors know nor do they perhaps care (or even know where Japan is and get it mixed up with China and Korea and Hong Kong). I am just saying this in a general sense to all Freepers out there.

It is a national weakness, a real blind spot, and it is reflected tonight in our vast wasteland of US media reporting on a major international event which impacts all in the US, wherein we have to turn to FR for The Truth in Timeliness. For as international as a people as we are (meaning people from every conceivable nation on earth) we are still incredibly insular and inward, total oblivious to the outside world at times. Now is one of them, (judging on yours and others reports of CNN, FOX TV, major networks, etc) Sad to see this, but nothing new, not surprising, in fact endemic. This is also the byproduct of a dumbed down society. They will only air what the American People in great measure appear to want; by and large the people want "bread" and "circuses" as well as substandard Presidents who are more pop-culture savvy "cool older brothers" than "seasoned leaders during international crises". Freepers are different I know, but hey, as a nation, you get what you want and majority rules.