[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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:
>
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