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From: pang@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Viewer's view of ABC's coverage of THE game
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Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 23:59:45 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 12 23:59:45 1984
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[Reprinted without permission from LA times,]
[August 11, 1984  -- Calendar section.      ]

               A supposedly international occasion has been turned
          into a flag-waving local meet by jingoistic ABC coverage.
          By day 2 I was bored, and each day increases my irritation
          and reduces my viewing.  I will now buy nothing with the
          Beatrice label, never go to McDonald's and drink no Coca-Cola.

                                          Heavenly Koh Wilson
                                          (Los Angeles)

     I might add that the dose of ABC's all American propaganda
is not much different from Soviet's propaganda.  The difference
probably lies in that Soviet propaganda is government paid, while
American propaganda is paid for by the private enterprises.  It's
interesting to speculate what would happen if the Korean TV takes
the same attitude as ABC -- During the 1988 games, we will only
be able to see events where there's a Korean entry ...  AND the
whole 1988 games will be covered in Korean!.

-- Alex Pang
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