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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

"Dan L" wrote in message
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Billy wrote:
(snip)
It appears that no matter how well we correct our hubris, any damage
we
have inflicted on the ecosystem will be with us for a long time to
come.

If you watch PBS a lot much of this information is already known

What is the significance of PBS? I'm not in the US but do get to see PBS
news (sometimes). I know what PBS stands for but why is watching PBS (as
opposed to any other US network) of relevance to knowing these facts?

It's our access to BBC programming, and to a lesser extent, Deutsche
Welle. It keeps us from looking too provincial, although, recently they
have been seeking funding from private companies. One of these
companies, Archer Daniels Midland, is heavily involved in making the
products that go into junk food (HFCS). Thus, local funding places
financial constraints on what PBS dares to say.

One of their reporters was just fired, Juan Williams, after Williams
said he is nervous flying aboard airplanes with Muslim passengers.
Williams made the comments on Fox News¹s The O¹Reilly Factor. Fox News
is our national television station owned by Ruppert Murdoch. You may
have heard of him.

It¹s been less than a day since Juan Williams was fired by NPR, yet he¹s
already signed a new three-year, multi-million-dollar contract with Fox
News, one that greatly expands his role there.

So we can watch Fox News, and know less than someone who doesn't watch
TV at all, or we can watch PBS, and (at least for the moment) appear
less provincial.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html