media/news availability (was Re: Angola)

Hey Graham & Kraig,

Just wanted to chime in in sympathy with Kraig. It is
quite difficult to get real news in the US and takes
something of an effort.

Most people in the US get their news from the TV or the
paper. The TV news is ridiculous -- an exposee on
diaper rash, local crime news, state crime news,
national crime news, maybe 30 seconds on national
polical issues if you're lucky, a piece about pretty
red fire engines, then 8 minutes of sports and 2
minutes on the weather.

The local paper here is silly - there is actually no
news whatsoever outside of movie reviews (all
positive), club listings, engagement and birth
announcements. Have to get the paper from the big city
to get more in depth news and it is similar to the TV
news, though a wee bit deeper.

About as much relevant reality news as the old Pravda.

If I have a chance to go to the big city I'll pick up a
copy of the Sydney Morning Herald -- which is a really
good newspaper and tells me more in one paper than I
learn all year from the american papers.

Kraig is not joking -- if you can't afford to subscribe
to a foreign newspaper, or are adpet at getting news
off the internet, you are unlikely to have any idea
whatsoever about what is going on.

- Jeff

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>From: graham@...
>To: metatuning@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [metatuning] Re: Angola
>Date: Tue, May 28, 2002, 9:00 PM
>

> Kraig Grady wrote:
>
>> Hello Graham!
>> You have to remember that here in the states the press
> is
>> controlled to
>> the point that it will give you no news over telling you
> anything the
>> powers
>> that be don't want you to know. I had missed the whole
> angola thing
>> although
>> i know at one point there was a tribe there that did
> harmonic singing
>> but
>> instead of focusing on the lower harmonics, they liked the
> 7-9-11 triad
>> with
>> added tones, sometimes with the tonic shifting a whole tone.
>
> The Economist has offices in Los Angeles, New York, San
> Francisco and
> Washington yet somehow is exempt from this. Why do you think
> TPTB care
> what you know about Angola anyway?
>
>
> Graham
>
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