On Jan 12, 8:36*pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Jan 7, 9:39*am, harry wrote:



if you've got freeview 'russia today' and 'aljerzeeraz 'make an interesting
different slant on the news.

If you have "Freesat" there is additionally to those France 24,
Japanese, three American, Sky news and Chinese ones.

Remarkably, the Yank ones are worse than ours. (CNN etc)

It explains the mentality of US posters on a lot of forums. Rather
than look stuff up online they look stuff up on their newscasts and
then post it.

A lot of American's education is very narrow and specialised but
usually extensivei n their chosen subject.

They are all brainwashed by Fox News.
Ingnorant and insular/parochial.

They think Hollywood epics are true history.
eg John Wayne won WW2.
Boeing invented the jet engine.
They won the Vietnam war.
Bill Gates invented computers.
Wild Bill Hickock invented the steam engine.
Davey Crocket fought to the death.
They are winning/won in Afghanistan/Iraq.
Abraham Lincoln was a better guy than Saddam Hussein.
George Washington was their first president.
The Brits did not burn down the White House.
There has not been concentration camps in the USA since independeance.