Daily Report

Originally written and published on the day itself.

First of all I must say that I am amazed with what my words mean to some people.

Yesterday I wrote about how it occured to me how CNN has changed from the main headline news transmitter to an ordinary propaganda machine for the United States. I even added: this is my opinion.

Oh - my - God - did I insult many citizens of the United States with that. Even because I wrote that Americans probably won’t even notice this propagandizing of their media.

My mailbox piled out again with emails from (only) Americans who used over 24 different words to take me down in any way and the best negative response was the one in my messageboard, by a person who calls himself Cowboy. And because the board will just live on and on, I am happy to quote him here:

“Why do you watch CNN then, you free-loading little wimp. If it wasn't for the USA and Great Britain, you'd be German. You are just so jealous that all the attention has been taking away from the free-loading adventures of the bald-headed little Ramon. What? Are these tragedies ruining your pitiful claim to fame? As you disgrace the loving people that host you by telling to the world that their house or hotel is clean or dirty. You live in such a fairy tale world, wimp, wake up, before you get another bloody nose or worse!!! There is one thing that you said that is true. Americans are proud and VERY powerful. Don't worry, I will never visit your web site again, because people like you sicken me.”

These kind of messages don’t bother me at all, they just tell me enough about the people and where they come from, what they stand for and how low their intelligence is.

(And the word fame he mentions, is always invented by others, I don’t carry that flag with me. I just do my thing.)

Fortunately the messageboard (not archived) also allows people to respond to heroic Cowboy:

“thank god there are fewer americans like 'Cowboy' or we would be allready in a 3rd World War. Because of is way of thinking is that why the world is now with this problem. His great CNN fake images.”

And I don’t want to withold quoting an supportive email about my opinion, from an American woman:

“All news produced in the US is slanted very far in the US favor. For a few days after the WTC event, I kept asking folks on my lists to pass on any news from outside the country. Everyone pointed me to CNN, NBC, all of the US news channels. Americans, in general, don't realize that the news on TV outside of the US is very different from the news we get inside."

"We still have no idea what the Europeans are really thinking, unless we know some and they send us emails. For five days, by watching the news, you would have thought we were the only people on the planet, besides bin Laden!”

“One of my favorite things to do when I spend time visiting friends in Paris and Europe is to watch the news so I can get a well rounded perspective.”

It is good that there are more people on this globe just don’t believe everything that is broadcast on commercial powered media.

It is just a pity that some people also believe Everything and don’t look further than their own lawn and don’t understand the difference between a personal opinion and an absolute statement.

Thank you all, for the letters!