God bless America - for three reasons at least
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Linda Colley
Wednesday October 22, 2003
The Guardian
Coming back to the United States after five years in London, I am
struck by how much has changed since I last worked here. I am struck,
too, by how much about America - including a great deal that is good -
barely gets reported in Britain.
To begin with, it seems a markedly more cosmopolitan place. The
plurality of television channels means that the world is now beamed
into ordinary American households to an unprecedented degree. Of
course, Fox News allows Murdoch to extend his influence over what
people see and think. And, of course, wealthy lobbies take their cut.
You can tune in every week, for instance, to a show devoted to raising
money for shipping Russian Jews to Israel. This is less
humanitarianism pure and simple than the activism of America's
religious right. The idea, as is made clear, is that deserving
individuals from the former communist evil empire will serve to boost
Israel's Jewish population, thereby keeping the Palestinians firmly in
their place and enhancing the ties between Christian and Jewish
fundamentalists that the likes of the evangelist Jerry Falwell now
consider indispensable.
Linda Colley
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