tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12371420.post116715248173159404..comments2024-01-02T03:39:02.595-05:00Comments on Econo-Girl: South African Perspective on NewsEcono-Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710293494850428244noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12371420.post-29225229461987558872006-12-30T05:10:00.000-05:002006-12-30T05:10:00.000-05:00Iggy,
OK, now there's a good point. It could be ...Iggy,<br /><br />OK, now there's a good point. It could be that I live in Washington, DC and there are a lot of diplomats and well-traveled Americans here.<br /><br />So, what would the strategy be? A good 60-70% of my hits are from Google. So what would the angle would be to infiltrate the mind of America? How about putting a title on the post that relates to Americans, and then slip the information in. You can see, of course, that I have not given up on this mission.Econo-Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06710293494850428244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12371420.post-67840916960432542722006-12-29T12:56:00.000-05:002006-12-29T12:56:00.000-05:00I have a friend who works as an instructor at a ba...I have a friend who works as an instructor at a bar tending school. I worked at in an environment where everyone had at least a 4 year degree and could speak at least three languages. <br /><br />I would say stuff like "you know, people are not buying this crap". My friend would then remind me I was working with educated people. People who obtained degrees in the USA but who attended k-12 in other countries. <br /><br />He was working with typical morons. Some of his students thought that Pearl Harbor was just a movie and never really happened. <br /><br />You may be in the same boat as me. If you spend all your time with educated people that know what is going on then you draw conclusions that are not true. <br /><br />So let me re-phrase my first statement. Here is what the typical American will say about foreign news sources. <br /><br />"Who cares about that? I do not have time to worry about it. There is a sale on Prada stuff at the mall, and my I-Pod still has 7 gigs of free space on it!"<br /><br />Most of the people in my age group are clueless. They really do not care.The Lazy Iguanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12826083852416577162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12371420.post-66692796025565859692006-12-29T11:40:00.000-05:002006-12-29T11:40:00.000-05:00Forgive me, Iggy, but I disagree. Americans are r...Forgive me, Iggy, but I disagree. Americans are really reaching outside the media filter for information these days. Bill Clinton won because of that. After all, the mainstream media thought they killed his Presidential chances.<br /><br />A lot of ideas Americans used to embrace have been removed, like the idea that innocent people are never sent to prison, and that Mike Wallace is a trusted news source.<br /><br />So their minds are a little more open. I realize people are still not going to go to Africa to see what they might be missing, so Econo-Girl is going to do that for them. Kind of a public mission. Besides, she loves it.Econo-Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06710293494850428244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12371420.post-43328034457371562542006-12-29T10:25:00.000-05:002006-12-29T10:25:00.000-05:00Here is what the typical American citizen will say...Here is what the typical American citizen will say about this.<br /><br />Of course I have not heard this from American news sources! It is simply not true! It is just another example of state run news from nations that hate America trying to spread lies to discredit America and turn attention away from all the good things we are doing!<br /><br />Can you hear the banjo music? I can. Good luck swimming upstream. Watch out for grizzly bears. I have been doing this for some time now. I gave up.The Lazy Iguanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12826083852416577162noreply@blogger.com