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At Tad oversensitive, methinks
StudentofConflict
6/16/2006 6:22:56 AM
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J'une 15, 2006: Anti-Americanism has reached a new low. FIFA, the international sports organization for football (soccer to Americans) refused to allow U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (and warships at sea) to view any of the current World Cup games being played in Germany. The U.S. AFN (Armed Forces Network) has no budget for sports programming, and usually gets a free feed for major sporting events, in the same spirit that movie studios and TV networks provide free access to their product for troops in combat zones. FIFA demanded money, and would not budge on that. While soccer is not a major sport in the United States, it's estimated that a quarter or more of the troops are fans, and would enjoy seeing some of the World Cup matches. However, once this situation became known, several wealthy Americans stepped forward to correct the situation. The first one to make a move was media magnate Robert Murdoch, who ordered his Fox Network to make arrangements, and pay whatever FIFA was demanding, to get the soccer games to the troops, as soon as possible. This was accomplished in 24 hours.'
Hes being a bit oversensitive ascribing this to Anti-americanism. Whilst there are a lot of dummmies who don't realise that the world economic and political order is underpinned by american wealth and might, I reckon FIFA is just after money here, it would've been the same if the BBC for example had tried to show games for free. Bad public relations, and greedy, but not anti-american... |
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