SeaGypsy wrote:Did you read the article, or just see RT & decide to crap on like that? It quotes government sources with names inside Germany speaking quite rationally about how regional government is feeling about national government foisting large numbers of immigrants on them. Anarchy- thousands of undocumented arrivals a day, Civil war- regions rebelling against national directives, risking breakup of the nation. Your silly over the top rant is completely unwarranted.
I seriously doubt Germany is actually, in fact, "on the brink of civil war" and there's "anarchy" all over the place.
It's a bit concerning if RT becomes an accepted brand and that Matt Drudge features an RT story with his big bold headline and so many people look at the Drudgereport, it just surprised me that he'd link RT. Matt Drudge knows better.
Even if someone IS so much against immigration, you don't go linking Russian propaganda about it to make your case.Anyhow RT isn't the end of the world.
I have a look at it sometimes -- it's propaganda, if you want to see a page with everything that's so horrible about America and the West then have a look at RT. That's useful to a point, *as long as the reader knows it's propaganda and they have that in mind and realize there's a massive bent to it and never the whole story but rather kernels of truth (which is what makes good propaganda)*.
And then, RT will often have stories about how great new Russian military gear is, and just general military news in Russia and to be fair they also have positive stories about Russia and then humorous things. What you'll never see though, ever, is anything bad about Putin or problems in their politics or problems in Russia. So that's why it's propaganda. When they don't really fairly present all the news.
So RT is not the end of the world, but as an American in my local community, I'm sorry if it offends anyone but no I would not support FCC exemptions if RT wanted to be on local broadcast towers in my county.
And I'm not going to write a letter to my congressman either, asking him to make an exemption for China Radio to be broadcasting in my county -- unlike RT, this China radio apparently never says who they are. It's just Americans with an American accent, in a Beijing studio, I guess.
I don't want to go off into paranoid land but look SG it's just weird, ok? It's just weird, if any of my local stations just started broadcasting Beijing over my local county airwaves, I just think it's odd and something we didn't use to have in this country and it's just not something I would support.
The BIGGEST problem about it is that from these articles, it appears that the presenters have an American accent and are Americans but I guess some of it is done in Beijing and it's the communist state radio that has editorial control *but nobody is informed of this* so maybe someone in Kansas doesn't even know that the radio signal is from Beijing.
Listeners should at lest be informed, I think.
To get you to understand this SG, as an analogy, imagine if Americans did this in Russia.
Imagine if some trucker in Siberia turns his radio on after a hard day's work, and he here's a Russian on there and it sounds like somebody from Russia, but maybe it's really from a studio in Washington DC run by the Voice of America and they've leased all the time on a radio station in that Siberian town -- and then they never identify that the broadcast is from America.
Wouldn't that be kind of shady, and not right? To not even identify as being Voice of America? If Russians complained about it, wouldn't they have an honest point, that that's not right?
By the way, if IT IS JUST CHINESE PEOPLE that have views and maybe they are nationalist but still they're just individual people AND IF IT'S NOT straight from the communist party headquarters, then ok.
That would be fine to have in the US, some Chinese views -- even if they are nationalist and pro government -- but then the station should have Chinese dissidents on there too and have a discussion and both sides to the story and then people can learn some things.
But if it's not just people just having these views on their own, and it's a communist party operation, then that's another thing entirely.
So China should just do this thing differently, is all. But they still can't own radio stations, that's against our law.
But they could get a cable tv channel or a radio *show* or network and it would be okay if they were OPEN about it and call it China Radio.
And then they should just do things differently, now that they are in America, and have dissidents on there too and opposing views. And this would be good for China, and FAR more effective at getting their pro communist party / government view out there, and at the same time would be a healthy experiment for the Chinese government -- an experiment in actually allowing dissenting opinions.
China's actually doing a lot of things in the US right now.
I saw a piece on CNN recently about a Chinese company that bought a factory in North Carolina.
The Chinese foreman (a woman, actually) said the Americans show up late and want more time off work so that's an adjustment and they're trying to adjust to how Americans are.
We gotta watch this stuff guys -- China could be our bossman in the future. Let's not lose our country. It's not the end of the world, just something that has to be watched, that's all.
And Chinese aren't bad people they're just people, and they probably run a good factory in North Carolina and she didn't seem like an awful boss but yet this really is America -- our labor standards are harsher than in Europe but we do have better conditions than China does, and China has to understand and accept our differences from them.