Originally Posted by roachboy

......... no doubt, this kind of density of information would prompt many tv viewers to wander away from their screens to get sandwiches or something and thereby miss vital advertising. better to keep information short and punchy, to reduce the sense of linkage to information to the most base imaginable level (paranoia works--it prevents folk from wandering away to get sandwiches, thereby missing vital advertising)--even if the cost of this short/punchy model is no understanding whatsoever of the american modes of "managing" the planet that the neocons obviously see as a vast american colony--no idea of why folk in other places might have views of the states that cannot be jammed into the dynamic paranoia/cheerleading that seems to shape most tv coverage of the planet--what matters is not what you know of the world, what you know of the american role in the world, but that you do not wander away from the tv to get a sandwich or something and thereby miss vital advertising................

...........why dont "they" like us? could you bring me a beer, martha? vital advertising is coming.