From: David Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 13:25:00 PST
Steve It seems going over your posts of the last several months you bash a
lot of things that are American the politicians, American history, American
rights and laws Decorated Marine Vets following orders or even now American
news.
You do not like America what's up with the Anti American slant. I hear they
are looking for good history teachers in France.
Sorry for the non MV content but the American bashing is getting on my
nerves this is my country and I love it no matter its faults, It is the best
damn country period.
And go Olie....
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] CNN quote of the day
> Ryan,
>
> I personally have found less useful information on CNN than in the past.
> I started out watching CNN exclusively until I found myself sitting
> there listening to a lot of the same thing over and over and over again.
> Generally with what I found to be very ill informed commentary. I then
> switched to MSNBC which I had never watched before. I have not regreted
> that decision. I only switch to Fox when both aren't doing anything
> useful, and then only stay there if they aren't going off the wall about
> something. Then I stumbled upon a Canadian/German based 24 hour news
> channel which I find infintely better (on the whole) than all three,
> provided I am not looking for live footage. I don't agree with the
> Canadian anti-war slant of some of their guests, but then again I don't
> see the US networks doing more than towing the party line for the most
part.
>
> In general, I am not impressed with the questions posed to military or
> administrative officials. I think I could have asked far more informed
> and meaningful questions when I was wet behind the ears Freshman in
> college. The net result is a missed opportunity to get real information
> from our leaders instead of obvious answers to stupid questions.
>
> Just my opinion :-)
>
> Steve
>
> P.S. I wasn't slamming CNN for having a particular political slant.
> Just pointing out that if someone wants to accuse it of being
> "communist", well... I heard the exact opposite from Turner's son.
> Neither surprise me.
>
> >At 4:54 PM -0500 3/23/03, Steve Grammont wrote:
> >>
> >>I think it should be a Crime Against Humanity to have reporters and
> >>(especially) anchors who don't have a friggin clue about military ops,
> >>equipment, or historical perspective. I have seen so many MTV twitch
> >>questions ("why haven't we found this, done that, or seen this") than I
> >>care to think of.
> >
> >We've had Miles O'Brian on non stop over the week. The guy has to get
> >some sleep some times. Additionally, keep in mind that when you have
> >an anchor go on and start spouting details about the military, most
> >of the audience is going to say "huh?"
> >
> >
> >>I also have stopped watching CNN. Their anchoring of this coverage is
> >>horrible. I have been instead watching MSNBC and a newish 24hr cable
> >>news channel that pipes in news from non-US sources. Their coverage is
> >>in many ways superior and far more informative in general.
> >
> >Where'as Fox won't stop talking over the entire coverage of extremely
> >grave footage that speaks for itself.
> >
> >
> >
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