Why is the G8 not news in the U.S.? ( Archived) (26)

good to know! Thanks for the information.

I guess i'm even scared to go to moveon.org...i like general chanels then do my judgement.

There isn't much in the news about it here in the Uk either. Seems issues such as the new series of big brother and paris Hilton being released from jail are more important issues in the eyes of the media

Believe it or not the internet is not in every household. second, not every person with internet looks to read the news there. many people do rely on the news thru papers and the tv here is the US. who cares?? a lot of people do,,maybe not really being told aor shown ,,but they do take in information or the lack of. There are tremendous influences though media,,don't kid yourself.....tv and newspapers are very powerful,,,,and I have found first hand that they are selective and say many times only what they wish,,,,,NOT the whole story.
good day sir

between that and paris hilton it hard to find anything else yesterday on the News channels, local news does snipets of international news imagine 10 minutes of local news tryin gto cover al the international news its 15 sound bytes going non stop for 5 seven and sometimes ten minutes . natonal news get about the same then the local news and weather gets the rest. half hour news broadcasts it hard to cover it all. but those news news all news channels ...dude the beat the horse to death. and heres the ironic thing those all news channel put ther own political spin on rgthe stories just change one word in a sentence and the spin of the story has begun...... its true even NPR has this problem
my I ask those from other countries do you get the united states news programs does your country allow it broadcast in your country , not just snipets but its entirty????


15 seconds out of a 10 minute speech is only deceiving to the veiwers especially when the reporter comments
"he also went on to say"

i try to listen and read both strictly acquiring your news form one source is not a good idea...Thats my thoughts on this.

As a dumb American, I DEMAND to know what this "G8" conference is, and what they intend to do about Paris Hilton.


Ok, I think I've gone through this before. One more time, for my friends in Europe. Most of us do not get our news from one source. We have access to literally hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines, and books. The generalization that "Americans" do not know what goes on in the rest of the world is a little off. There are some who only watch Fox News, some that only read "Mother Jones"-type liberal rags and so on. But, in my experience, most people at least try to get a grasp on the issues of the day. Do not let American television (or European news sources) push forward the idea that the US is uninterested in the rest of the world. Many of us have a keen interest in what goes on around the world. It's almost sad how misinformed many on here are about American's ability to gather information. Some buy into the propaganda, some do not. Enough already with the generalizations!!

This is not really a response to the original question, but more of a response to the responses. I think the G8 conference has been covered quite a bit, especially with the Putin-Bush missle defense stuff going on. I have read much about the G8 over the last week.

The truth is, the media is a liberal bastalion, and I am not a conservitive, but a moderate and will find good and bad in both the libs and conservitives. The problem here in the past 20-30 years is the libs have been going way off their rockers on so many issues it has really been hard to give them any support. And no the conservitives are not the victoms, but help fuel the problems a lot themselves too, by not standing on what they talk about as much as they should. The conservitives have a major problem of being all talk and little action, so the liberals get a free ride to much of the time, which is why we often see so many declines on our economy and laws. Then when someone does stand up, he/she becomes a target of so much ill founded hate it gets so damned crazy here. Like the war in Iraq, there was so many reasons we should have went, and this was saisd even by many of the liberal politicians before Bush took office, but they never did a blasted thing about what they said, yet when Bush went in, it has been treated like he was the only person that thought of this, and called in so many ways different forms of criminal, it has become so stupid an issue from the start. He rebuilt the ecomony faster than any one in office I have seen in my life time, yet he is blamed for a situation he did not start, and it has been said too often that he is doing nothing for the economy even with the build looking as good as it is. The media plays a lot into this by spreading false information, just like Al-Quada teaches their new recruits to understand and use.
If you think Soros' information is so wrong, then check it out. He uses the media, easily turned groups of people (like the liberals in the US) and anything he can to make his efforts pay and the people of that country suffer. Its all a finacial game to him, and as long as he can make a buck off from other's pain who cares right?
Yes he saw the weakness in the pound, but what did he do to make sure that weakness was exploited for his gain? Try looking into that and see what you can find.
Like I said, Clinton is who he would like in office, because it would benefit him. As much as I do not like Obama's political views, he would be a far better choice for the Dems, than she would be. And I am not even sure it is legal for her to run a President in the first place, I know it was not for her Husband when he ran for his first term, but he did anyhow.

Humble pie and crow isn't easily digested.