> > ...it's all pretty much been teaching about
> > why America is the worst country to have ever
> > hit the planet.
>
> That's interesting. I imagine it's probably a
> matter of which teachers you happen to get and
> their individual opinions. It's more the mass
> media that I'm thinking of here though. What
> about that?

You didn't -say- "the mass media", though. You said "the US government". Our government does not control the "mass media" (other than rules against broadcasting profanity or sexually explicit material at certain times on certain TV channels or radio stations). I know in Canada the government has a more active role in television production for some reason, and I think the same is true in the U.K. (I can't remember whether the BBC is run by the government or not), but the United States does not hold these practices, and it cannot be reasonably argued that they control television or movies or whatever, whether for pro-American propaganda or otherwise. (PBS is "public"; I don't know if that means they just rely on donations or if they also get tax support. If they do, they're certainly the exception, and all they ever really show on there is educational programming and old British sitcomes anyway.)

-Eric Sleator
Thu 11 Jul A.D. 2002