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So says the entry to this message board.  But that's not true, is it?


I posted a thread a couple months ago complaining about "mis-stating of the date"; I added posts citing incidents by several reporters.  But that whole thread seems to be removed -- I just searched "all posts made by Gadgetere", results were zero.

That's part  of the complaint --- ABC News compels their reporters to cite dates as "Twenty-Oh-Two" (for instance), as Richard Cantu just did today.  Not one person on the PLANET said "twenty-oh-two", the CORRECT date is TWO THOUSAND TWO. AbcNews itself reports that 3/4of Americans prefer "two thousand something".  We don't want to be manipulated or controlled, your job is only to report the news, not to CHANGE us.

This is just an example of the whole attitude --- which we will see more and more as we approach "re-election of the BAMA".  Everyone knows that in 1961 NO documents listed "African" as parents' ethnicity, they all said "NEGRO".  That birth certificate is as phony as the Bama is.  The country cannot survive 23 trillion national debt, we may well not survive this horrible excuse of a leader and an offense to all we were created for.  But watch ABCNews fall all over themselves praising their idol, with NO regard to the damage he's doing and the dereliction to the peoples' wants.

Why don't you report on the fact that in 2008 Hawaii refused to authorize obama as "presidential candidate, according to the provisions of the U. S. Constitution" (they had no problem authorizing Kerry, or Gore) --- but they finally signed one authorizing obama as candidate according to the Democrat National Committee (obviously afraid THEY would be imprisoned if it came out that the bama was not a citizen!).

Please put my original thread back, and link this post to it --- don't delete this and prove sorely biased attitude from a news service that is SUPPOSED to be informative, not manipulative.

The year is Two Thousand Eleven.  We want to hear  reporters say it.  And we want fair reporting, not "social engineering".

Oh my goodness!!!  Richard Cantu just said "TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN"!!!  :-D  :-D  :-D

...heh heh, just kidding.  NO reporter at ABC has said "two thousand anything", to my knowledge.  I'd love to know why.

Our local radio station carries ABC news, and "America's Radio News Network" powered by Washington Times.  ARNN's website declares "Making Breaking and Driving the News".  Listen, people, you're only supposed to REPORT the news --- not  "make it", not "drive it", not "shape it", not "control it".  America has always run on the principle that we can govern OURSELVES, if we're just well informed.  But we cannot be informed with Soviet-style-policies like "manipulating the masses" through news control.

This is the complaint about "Twenty-Eleven"; we don't want to be controlled, we don't want to be changed.  Just report the news.  HONESTLY.  And if the majority of people say "Two Thousand Eleven", would it really hurt you reporters to say "Two Thousand Eleven"?  Or "Two Thousand Twelve"?  It's the underlying attitude that is the complaint.

"Twenty-Oh-Three" --- when in Two Thousand Three nobody on the planet said "Twenty-Oh-Three", is extremely arrogant and offensive.

Serve the people.  That is your business.  Am I telling you your business?  YES!  The customer is the "ultimate boss"!

Omigosh, no joke this time, this is what I actually just heard:

"The problem is in the glue, the glue could fail, making the energy efficient fluorescent light bulbs* fail.  The bulbs were manufactured by Philips between TWO THOUSAND SEVEN and TWO THOUSAND TEN"!

I'm really smiling!  I think it was Doug Limerik.

What are the chances of us ever hearing the most-accepted-pronunciation, again?


GOOD JOB, sir!!!

:-)




* These are the bulbs that are being rammed down our throats, starting next year, another aspect of "social engineering" --- fixing an energy shortage that does not exist, placing all of us (including our children!) in danger of mercury poisoning!  We no longer get to choose what light bulbs we use, what toilets we use, what we eat, where we go, and many other freedoms we used to take for granted.

Thoreau said, "The government that governs best, governs least" --- and we are being governed MORE AND MORE at the expense of liberty.  There is a bill to repeal the 2007 bulb-ban, we should scream at congressmen to support it.