Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah shure musha bhoy, tis a wonder dat I git eny toime fer photography wid all deh Oirish dancing Oi have ta do... hAon, Do, Tri, Ceathair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIT_ov0lOXo Douglas Packing the panniers on the donkey with turf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 7:11 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] RIP, my newspaper >I remember attending a program in San Francisco in the mid eighties when > another participant, an American, in all seriousness, asked me whether I > commuted on elephant back! What really shocked me, however, was how few > people on the west coast knew that a bank called Citibank (my employer at > that time) even existed - granted Glass-Steagall was still in force, it > required the combined efforts of Clinton, Rubin and Summers to repeal much > later, and unleash doom on the world - but Citi was the biggest bank in > the > world at that point in time! > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Frank Dernie > <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> Is this all that new? >> My first visit to the USA was in 1970 when I did a summer exchange with a >> US student, with me working at the Milwaukee factory of Falke Gear >> Corporation and he at David Brown Gear Industries, the company with which >> I >> was doing my apprenticeship. >> I was warmly welcomed and the people I met were extremely hospitable and >> polite. My big shock, however, was how little the people I got to know >> knew >> about World affairs, politics and geography in general. I knew more about >> US geography than anybody I met. Schools taught nothing about the World >> at >> all, as far as could tell from the friends I made of my age. >> There was no locally available newspaper that I found with more than >> perfunctory and very US-centric articles on anything which was not local >> and these were lurking on one non-prominent page like an afterthought. >> The general knowledge of what was happening elsewhere in the World was >> absent (in fact most people seemed to assume the USA was the world?) even >> though American boys were being brutalised daily in Viet Nam at that >> time. >> For me the newspapers and tv news were parochial. Anything worthwhile was >> only in magazines like Time. >> It is something which massively shocked me at the time and that I have >> never forgotten. >> Frank D. >> >> >> > On 30 Mar, 2015, at 09:04, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at >> > gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > The answer is that the media do not think that their American >> > readership >> is >> > interested in anything international except if it directly affects the >> > U.S., or if it somehow confirms or (occasionally) refutes a dominant >> > American attitude. Or if it is horriffic, or has something to do with >> sex, >> > and the more outrageous the better. >> > >> > Compare the U.S. vs. International editions of major American >> publications. >> > You'll get a rude shock. Also, compare a 1950s or 60s edition of Time >> > or >> > Newsweek with a recent one. You'll find less content, less depth, and a >> > much lower grade-level of writing. None of this is accidental. The >> > publications life blood is the delivery of eyeballs to advertisers. >> > They >> > know that today's American eyeballs, on average, will not stay on the >> page >> > of intelligent, in-depth articles long enough to see the ads. >> > >> > --Peter >> > >> > On Sunday, March 29, 2015, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> > wrote: >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information