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2010-12-08 Arabia

Satellite TV into S. Arabia better than US propaganda

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Posted by Uleger Barnsmell4617 2010-12-08 08:52|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Baywatch as nuclear weapon. Seriously, these shows are mental can openers to people in third world countries, and what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Barbarism requires ignorance as well as poverty to function, and if people get a glimpse of not only a better life, but a better way of life, barbarism tends to go right out the window.

Oddly enough, the leader in this, around the world, are emotionally charged, low budget Mexican soap operas. They translate perfectly, and they are utterly hypnotic to people who are emotionally stunted and culturally inhibited. They see that, and they want to be that.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-08 09:47|| 2010-12-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 'round these parts it's all Korean soaps. Can't get enough of those stock plots!

Posted by gromky 2010-12-08 10:09|| 2010-12-08 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Baywatch as nuclear weapon
It is a proven concept--get the houswives discontent and there will be no more nookie until life changes. And this very effective concept has been noticed and shut down:

Fox News: "Iran has shut down an office of television channel Farsi1, owned by News Corp. and Moby Group, and arrested at least four employees for 'anti-revolutionary' activity, the Tehran prosecutor was quoted as saying Tuesday. 'With the intention of helping the anti-revolutionary movement, this bureau was tasked with dubbing movies for Farsi1 channel in an office in the center of Tehran,' Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency. State television's website quoted him as saying 'four or five people' had been arrested. Hong Kong-based broadcaster Star, equally owned by News Corp. and Afghanistan's Moby, launched the Farsi1 satellite channel in summer 2009, airing soaps and sitcoms dubbed into Farsi and targeting a potential 100 million-strong audience in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. News Corp. also owns NewsCore. Farsi1 was an instant hit in Iran, where private TV and radio stations are also forbidden, but it infuriated hardliners who accused its broadcaster of promoting 'corruption' in the country's conservative Islamic society." http://fxn.ws/gXmbLh

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-12-08 11:35|| 2010-12-08 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 -get the houswives discontent and there will be no more nookie until life changes

But then the goats and young boys are targeted

Posted by Beavis 2010-12-08 11:41|| 2010-12-08 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 considering how much TV and Sat-TV shows suck.... this is kind of sad in a way...

Posted by Water Modem 2010-12-08 12:38|| 2010-12-08 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 considering how much TV and Sat-TV shows suck.... this is kind of sad in a way...
on the other hand, the Saudis are getting Fox News, with Glenn Beck's expose' of the Puppetmaster, Soros, to feed the Muzzie conspiracies, and all those glamour girls with cleavage...

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-12-08 13:13|| 2010-12-08 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Even though oil prices are up, the Saudis have rising expenses due to all the jihadi groups that need funding... and Muslim congregations around the world that need to be kept in fancy new mosques and teaching materials. Fox is partially owned by one of the Saudi princelings; by increasing viewership in this way, he'll have more money to pour into the above investments in the future.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-08 15:22|| 2010-12-08 15:22|| Front Page Top

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