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Sunday Doubleheader

published by Rocker on Sun, 2010-05-02 13:40

First of all, I wanted to thank so many of you for giving my last post a read.

I thought you might enjoy this double-header as well.

Game One:

"Mexico City’s toxic skies begin to clear up" by Anne-Marie O’Connor, Washington Post | April 3, 2010

MEXICO CITY — This megalopolis once had the world’s worst air, with skies so poisonous that birds dropped dead in flight. Today, efforts to clean the smog are showing visible progress, revealing stunning views of snow-capped volcanoes — and offering a model for the developing world.

As Mexico prepares to host world leaders at a UN climate-change conference later this year, international experts are praising the country’s progress. Many say its determined efforts to control auto emissions and other environmental effects of rapid urbanization offer practical lessons to cities in China, India, and other fast-growing countries.

International officials say steady improvement of Mexico City’s air could bolster President Felipe Calderón’s bid for a leadership role among developing countries seeking to address global warming....

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Game Two:

"Mexico City’s toxic skies begin to clear up" by Anne-Marie O’Connor, Washington Post | May 2, 2010

MEXICO CITY — This megalopolis once had the world’s worst air, with skies so poisonous that birds dropped dead in flight. Today, efforts to clean the smog are showing visible progress, revealing stunning views of snow-capped volcanoes — and offering a model for the developing world.

As Mexico prepares to host world leaders at a UN climate-change conference later this year, international experts are praising the country’s progress. Many say its determined efforts to control auto emissions and other environmental effects of rapid urbanization offer practical lessons to cities in China, India, and other fast-growing countries.

International officials say steady improvement of Mexico City’s air could bolster President Felipe Calderón’s bid for a leadership role among developing countries seeking to address global warming....

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What do you know, same score on both ends of the doubleheader. 

That's AmeriKa's agenda-pushing "news" media!

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Comments

Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-05-02 19:27.

In "Backlash" by Susan Faludi the author recounts when she visited some wire service like AP and found that "lazy journalists"  seem to take stories and rewrite them (a little) then recirculate them without doing any fact checking on the story.   The above looks like a repost.  They probably needed some filler.

That would explain why all the press about the great education system in Japan kept spewing out, even though there was not a shred of truth to it.  The news services keep reporters in foreign countries, and all they seem to do is get drunk at the Foreign Correspondents' Club and look for hookers.

As for Mexico City - when I lived there, the effects of the air quality were said to be like smoking 5 packs a day.  They could have done something about it then by enforcing or creating emissions standards. 

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