In article ,
Dan L wrote:

Billy wrote:
In article ,
"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.

I get most of my national and global news from the internet's RRS
feeds. Every morning with a cup of coffee, I scan the headlines and read
any topic of interest from the comfort of my easy chair with the local
news tv station is on. I use the "Pulse News" and the "Early Edition"
RRS news reader apps. I select a balance of feeds for different views.
Otherwise PBS is my other choice.

I'd suggest, KPFA (Pacifica), a listener supported radio station out of Bezerkley, CA ), where the content is for the listener, and not the
underwriters.
--
- 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