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Friday, September 16, 2005
Alternative News Sources
T
he "perky" anchors delivering hyper-optimistic American news have been an object of ridicule and parody ever since the 1987 movie "Robocop."
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myself have found it necessary to turn to two noncommercial and exquisitely non-perky news sources on the Web: Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" and BBC Newsnight. And the anchors on BBC News, not beholden to American corporations, often deliver more penetrating reports on American events and much wider coverage of world news than is ever seen on American television.
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o perhaps the very best future that Americans could create for American news broadcasting would be to simply ignore it. If one still wants to look at females with glistening white teeth, one can always turn to toothpaste ads.
Posted by fm on September 16, 2005 at 12:41 AM