"Ed Huntress" wrote in news:aYUYa.15948
:

Dave Mundt wrote:
Greetings and Salutations.
Take a gander at this story from
the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2779069.stm

I suppose it is not totally off topic,
as it does involve some fairly intricate metalwork.
However, if any of y'all are involved in the
recreational creation of nuclear devices, I REALLY
want to know...mainly so I can consider moving
a BIT further away (*smile*)
In any case, here is a story with meat
and serious implications for America, and, it
receives NO publicity, and no discussion. Instead
we are bombarded by tedious discussions about relatively
trivial issues - Kobe, gay marriage, "Governer Arnold",
etc.
My question is this: Is this story suppressed
because the news organizations have finally given up
and admitted they are no different from Jerry Springer
in the sort of program they produce, or, is our government
using the questionable powers of the Patriot Act and other
leverage to keep the sheeple from hearing something
disturbing?
To quote Bill O'Reilly: "We'll let the audience
decide".
Regards
Dave Mundt



This story was covered by the NY Times in last Sunday's "Week In
Review"
("Facing a Second Nuclear Age").

The proposed bombs are bunker-busters, which the BBC apparently didn't
mention.

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Ed Huntress
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Didn't mention? look at the link again, it's there at least five times. I
saw the BBC item in the UK and the opening line was ' nuclear bunker
busters'. or should that have been nucular (sp?).....

On the original post, if you spend anytime travelling outside the US and
see other countries news coverage you quickly realise that our US
coverage is usually;

Produced by the networks for viewing figures, sensationalism and over
emphasis rules, very little factual content.

Appears to assume the viewer has a blood temperature IQ

Rarely covers international events, and if they do its never a neutral
viewpoint.



While I can appreciate a certain backlash by posters against non US news
agencies, such as the BBC in these threads it might be worth considering
that the news as received here is minimal in content and often factually
very different from the rest of the world.

For example, the BBC world news, presented in the networks as a thirty
minute show which with Ad's makes about 117 mins of programming is fourty
uninterrupted minuites in other countries.