The world from a dual perspective

[pyoor_excuse]

So, I've started following the news from two separate perspectives. I've always taken what I read with a pinch of salt - every editor and journalist has their axe to grind, their agenda to forward, so the 'news' is really just someone's perspective on things that may or may not have happened.

At any rate, I was reading the CBC site and looking at their reporting of Bush's state of the nation speech (here) and comparing it to the BBC's effort. The BBC who are normally so... anti Bush, well, they seem to have had a bit of a change of direction in their reporting. I don't know if it's just the way I'm reading it, but it comes off far more positive about Bush than I'd like.

But one thing did strike me reading through it; this quote from Bush about Iran: "held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people". I think he might be confusing it for the US.

Comments

[inspector-81.livejournal.com]

I am dreading going through his State of the Union. But I know I have to.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

It was a great speech (in a political sense). Lots of promises to do exactly the right thing. Not a word on how he was going to do them.

You really would have to be against "motherhood and apple pie" to pick holes in what he did say, and there's nothing in there he can be called to account for afterwards. Of course this means it was just duckspeaking