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Re: For all the Countries involved, and lover's of history....

Posted by Jeff on Fri Jan 25, 2002 10:22:52 PM

In reply top Re: For all the Countries involved, and lover's of history.... posted by Scott WRG Editor on Fri Jan 25, 2002 11:26:08 AM

: : It has been pointed out to me recently, the bias the
: H
: : istory Channel shows towards America's role in WWII. Bei
: ng
: : an American I had never really thought much about it be
: fo
: : re.
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: One of the things I do at my job is to monitor signals we
: send to the Canadian version of DirectTV. The interesting
: bit is that the History Channel Canada does not show this
: American bias but tends to be biased towards Canadian/Brit
: ish subjects. Quite a bit of coverage is devoted to the Br
: itish civil wars. Very rarely is there anything WWII relat
: ed and there is almost never American biased shows. I wond
: er if History channel is in Europe and if the programming
: is more European in its bias.

Got the history channel here in Australia and it's got some bias towards america.

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