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Originally posted by Colin
This ranges from the inane such as McDonald's fast food to the insane such as the American press. (the majority of anti-American of anti-Bush stories that show up on GFY come from American reporters). People ask "how can people think so differently than me?" and then mythologize the answer to include things like "Americans don't have a critical press". People have difficulty believing that people can have access to the same information as them and have a different belief as to how to interpret it.
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The internet has really levelled the playing field in the distribution of information. Prior to the mid 90s though, I would disagree that American press was so diverse. Pockets of America were exposed to widely varying opinions but the majority of America was educated to current affairs but their local newspaper and the three biggies on TV, ABC/CBS/NBC. All you had to do was leave the United States and see even the Toronto Globe or the London Newspapers to see that the majority of American journalism was in fact slanted pro American. I left the United States for a year in the mid 80s and it was a real eyeopener to me how the media really can kill or extend the life of any issue and just how much American journalism is in fact opinion.