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Subject: [Leica] RIP, my newspaper
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:49:53 +0100
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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:
>>
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