Bush's FCC makes it easy to control viewpoints

I dont even want to get into the debate over news... my initial liberal knee-jerk reaction is that this is all tragic, but I would like to know more before I say anything...
I wonder what effect this will have on radio.. goodness knows, NPR can barely even keep classical or jazz programming these days (and there was a n article a few months ago in the Times saying that, Nationwide, they are being outbid for their "public" frequencies by religious organizations), and I wonder if increased centralization in the private market will force them to compete by dropping music programming altoghether (anyone who is aware of what has been going on with them in the last year knows I am not overreacting completely).

Let's try this one last time.

American reporters aren't "breaking [your] laws". They are - as I have repeated 234985798234890578934 times already - AMERICAN REPORTERS, PUBLISHING STORIES IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, IN AMERICA, WHERE AMERICAN LAWS ARE THE ONLY LAWS. The laws of the country where they obtain their story don't matter; ONLY THE LAWS OF THE COUNTRY WHERE THEY PUBLISH THEIR STORY MATTERS; if it was the other way around foreign news bureaus would cease to be.

As for "spitting in [your] diplomatic faces", once again, see above: the BC government asked the Seattle Times, through diplomatic channels, to not publish the story. The ST willingly complied. No spit was involved.

They still put it on the website in that case didn't they?

Fuck you, Canada!

Bite me, yank!

you bark, I bite

okay, guys. relax. we're all buddies here. lets just settle this over a friendly game of hockey.

if you want real news, do what i do ... read the wall street journal's news page (the editorial page is my all-time favorite sick joke, though sometimes it's akin to the schoolboy laughter of the retarded kid dancing around the lunchroom) or read/listen to non-american news sources (which have their biases, to be sure, but at least the BBC isn't typing GOP/White House blast-faxes verbatim and calling it "news").

the gap between the wall street journal's news page and it's editorial page is astounding (though we do have the editorial page to thank for 'lucky ducky')

Yes, I love the news page of the wsj (and some of their features are pretty interesting too), but the editorial section is beyond contempt.