Text 7568, 87 rader
Skriven 2013-03-22 16:38:13 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 7562 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: I'm surprised!
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Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> LOL! When the subject is spoken of by a certain Z2er, he throws the
 RW>> name of Fox into the faces of Z1ers as if there is a better source.

 WD> Actually ... you are correct. The real problem is that the last
 WD> decade or two news channels in the US have gone down the drain.

Those with a C in their moniker. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and so on. We
also get BBC and CBC here. All are left-wing biased, some worse than
others and headed downhill from there. The only time I ever watch the
first 3 is during primtime programming. Their liberal agenda even shows up
in that. OTH, Fox has been on the scene now for nearly 20 years and has
been and still is always on top of the Cs in ratings.

 WD> As I explained several times before, the programming of CNN-Europe is
 WD> vastly different than it is in North America because the North
 WD> American version would not fly here.

As wouldn't the Euro versions here.

 WD> Problematic is that these staions need to provide at 24hr news
 WD> service and there never can be that level of news that is of global
 WD> interest to keep the transmitters switched "on" for 24hrs, keep the
 WD> people watching, keep the sponsors happy. For that reason the North
 WD> American version of CNN indeed is crap and I will not object if you
 WD> call it that way.

The best I can say for CNN is that, and in the same breath for Fox too,
they have to re-run their prime-time programming to make up a days worth
of broadcasting. Not to mention that they run way too many commercials.
I'd much rather watch FBN (Fox Business News). There I get just as many
commercials, but they're oriented more to the financial interest (Gold,
Silver, Etc..) than user goods.

 WD> However the European edition of CNN looks like a BBC spin-off, very
 WD> calm, good language, well presented. There's nothing to compare with
 WD> as there is no Fox Europe ... I think.

There is, but its not referred to as such. In January this year, Fox
bought more shares of Sky Deutschland and now owns 54.5% of that.

 RW>> Tell me about the attempted hijacking of bnl-amalgeen occured. Or
 RW>> why the newly appointed moderator of the echo has stopped the open
 RW>> carrying of that echo, when it was never open to most people outside
 RW>> of NL in the first place.

 WD> 1) It's BNL.ALGEMEEN
 WD> 2) There is no newly appointed moderator of that echo. It has been
 WD> the same for years

MvdVlist is the moderator and he has restricted its distribution.

 WD> 3) I am unaware it is restricted. No-one outside the Dutch language
 WD> environ-ment has ever asked me or another person carrying it, for a
 WD> link ...

It used to be readable on Ozmosis.org/fidonet, but not since the moderator
requested it be removed. Which has been done. You might ask the "Blizzard
of Oz" (Andrew Clarke) about that...

 WD>  I think
 WD> 4) It's amazing that a sysop-echo serving the needs of only 20 sysops
 WD> would raise the levels of interest abroad so high.

When you discuss such persons from abroad in that echo, naturally it
raises an interest. Somewhere around here I have an archive of what was
said about yours truely in that echo. Especially interesting was the
mention of a 'political' agenda in the way my net nodelisting was read to
be.

 WD> 5) Thank you for giving away the identity of the person who provides
 WD> the oh so "secret link" BTW.

I didn't give away the identity of anyone providing that echo until just
now. I suppose I could have asked Janis or Joe for a feed, but that wasn't
necessary as it was distributed to Z3 and some of your russkie friends.
BTW, the russkie links also allowed replies to those messages. 8^)

Restraint is my middle name...


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