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Skriven 2004-10-22 18:12:10 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
    Kommentar till text 998 av Jack Yates (1:3613/1275)
Ärende: "Proof" (was: FidoNews 21:38 [09/09]: Fidonews Information)
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 BF>> Yesterday I heard Andy Roony in CBS 60 mins give a perfectly good
 BF>> explanaison to why the rest of the world hate USA.
 BF>> He said:" We don't give a <feeces> about what's going on in the rest of
 BF>> the world, we don't have any program that shows what's going on in any
 BF>> other country and we simply don't give a <poop> about news from them
 BF>> eiter."

 JY> He's probably right, they don't, and they don't.

Hope so. He's done news for over 30 years so he should know.

 JY> We ARE aware that GM has shut down several plants in the past year or so,
 JY> that Ford has done likewise, and that Chrysler is a company that, right
 JY> now, Daimler-Benz wishes they didn't own.  While yes, the 12,000 layoffs
 JY> in Europe is news to me, a fact that I regret for I'm a glutton for
 JY> knowledge, I am painfully aware that a similar number of auto-related jobs
 JY> have been eliminated, some forever, here in the US.  Were you aware of
 JY> this?

Don't you think that GM whises they didn't own Opel and SAAB now?
As I said to Robert, we do have international news here unlike you so this was
no news for me.
Glad I could bring some news to you.

 JY> It condenses, I think to the fact that the loss of jobs in Europe has a
 JY> direct effect on your standard of living, but little or no effect on mine,
 JY> so our news progranms don't bother to tell us.  It also needs to be

Now they are effecting you since the majority of the share-holder are
Americans.

 JY> considered that we Americans are so busy that we don't have the time or
 JY> the attention span to devote to a lengthy, comprehensive newscast.
 JY> Womeone wrote that the average office worker (male) allots a total of 45
 JY> minutes a WEEK with their children.  If we've sunk to that level trying to
 JY> maintain a lifestyle, how could you expect us to pay attention to the
 JY> business news in Europe.

That tells a lot where the world is going and then think that the rest of the
world
want to be like you.......

 JY> Sad, isn't it?

Yes.

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