The 26th April 1937 saw Hitler’s Condor Legion bomb the Northern Spanish Basque town of Guernica. It was seen as a proving ground for the Nazi party’s new Luftwaffe and much experience was to be garnered from the Spanish Civil War. The Condor Legion was led by Oberstleutnant Wolfram Freiherr Von Richthofen(The Red Baron’s cousin) and under Nationalist control. Guernica was behind the front lines and was a town of about 7000 population. The bombing was in waves and exact casualty reports are unknown, but probably numbered around 1000. The Legion was a mix of Fighters and Medium Bombers, all names we know: 109s(B not Es), HE 51s (biplanes), DO 17s, JU52s and HE111s. There were also some Italian Fiat Fighters and the versatile SM79.
The outcome of the bombing was to demoralise the townsfolk and lead to its falling to Franco’s Nationalists on the 29th April.
This bombing raid was to be a preview of what was to happen between 39-45 to larger cities like Warsaw, London,Berlin, Dresden and finally Tokyo.
Look @ cable news ratings. What do U Speculate?
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CABLE NEWS RACE - MON SEPT 12 2005
Net –--------- Program –------ # viewers
FOXNEWS - O’REILLY –------- 3,053,000
FNC ----- HANNITY/COLMES - 2,251,000 [almost 800,000 < above, 73.7% of O’R]
FNC –— SHEP SMITH -------- 2,009,000 [almost 240,000 < above]
FNC –— GRETA V. S. -------- 1,817,000 [almost 200,000 < above]
FNC –— BRIT HUME --------- 1,809,000 [8,000 < above, 59.3% of O’R]
CNN –— LARRY KING -------- 1,277,000 [532,000 < above, 41.8% of O’R]***
CNN –— COOPER ------------ 1,275,000 [2,000 < above]***
CNN –— AARON BROWN ---- 1,269,000 [6,000 < above]***
CNN –— P. ZAHN ------------- 1,174,000 [95,000 < above]
CNN –— DOBBS ---------------- 964,000 [210,000 < above, 31.6% of O’R]
CNNHN - GRACE –--------------- 748,000 [216,000 < above, 24.5% of O’R]
MSNBC - SCARBOROUGH –---- 610,000 [138,000 < above, 20.0% of O’R]
MSNBC - OLBERMANN –-------- 605,000 [5,000 < above]
MSNBC - HARDBALL –---------- 589,000 [16,000 < above]
MSNBC - RITA COSBY –-------- 498,000 [89,000 < above]
MSNBC - TUCKER –------------- 272,000 [226,000 < above, 8.9% of O’R]
Given the unknown…
that there are rich Democrats and poor Republicans…I speculate that…
- most conservatives watch FOXNEWS,
2)more moderates and undecideds watch FOXNEWS, - a bigger % of viewers stick with more of CNN lineup than with other nets[See *** above],
- MSNBC better have really cheap advertising rates or a Sugadaddy with bottomless pockets.
- most conservatives watch FOXNEWS,
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I watch Fox, CNN, BBC and ABC when I can. I figure between the four of them, I get the vast majority of the actual facts and they’ll contradict each other on their spin. Kinda like white noise filtering out the spin while the facts slip through.
Agencies I avoid like the plague:
CBS (can we say Dan Rather? Can we say 3 instances of falsified reports either purposly or because of ineptitude in their reporting ability during the elections? Can we say spin???)
I also tend to avoid NBC/MSNBC mainly because it’s owned by Microsoft and I don’t trust corporations that sell products or services to protray the news correctly.
While I have tons of reasons to distrust Spanish, French, German and Canadian news agencies, from their actual papers, I’ll refrain from specifics because I don’t have enough time to sit around scanning articles into PDF form and posting them right now. Suffice it to say, the fiction they print in their daily periodicals is humorous at best, evil at worst.
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