Sadly the only English language news available on basic cable is CNN. BBC was around for nearly a year, but got pulled just as I moved into my new place. They (CNN) had the press conference on the Lebanon crisis a short while ago, the one that took place in Rome. Rome, Italy. And the conference was delayed for something like an hour and a half. So this press conference had some members of the press at it. And naturally, being in Rome (Italy), some of the reporters were Italian, and asked their questions in the local language (Italian). But CNN couldn't find a frikkin' Italian translator for all of us who don't speak Italian. They couldn't find an Italian translator in Rome (Italy). Instead we had the anchor (one I really, really dislike, to the point of having to hit the mute button when her smug mug starts droning on) telling us her version of what we all needed to know about the crisis in Lebanon. And when the Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr. Fuad Siniora, started by thanking everyone except the current US Secretary of State (who was standing directly to his left)and began talking about Hezbullah's good works and Israel's continued occupation of the Shebaa Farms region of Lebanon, on the bitter suffering that the Lebanese people were undergoing and the incredible destruction being done to the entire Lebanese nation, Ms. Smug-Mug Anchor interrupted and went to a reporter and droned over what he was saying, completely drowning him out. Then when the current US Secretary of State started talking, the smug-mug immediately cut away to listen raptly to what was being said (nothing of note). It's gotten to the point that CNN won't countenance showing anything that goes against the current "wisdom" prevailing in Washington, D.C.; pretty soon they won't be able to show the weather (current record heat waves have nothing to do with Global Warming!).
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