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Just came back from Europe. Everyone knows about this and all media reported on it. Surprisingly so little is said in American media. Its not new that Americans do not like other nations succeed in space! If these were US-based rovers, each network will give it 10 minutes cover. Same sad story about Chinese Moon landing. Most American friends laughed at me when I told them China landed rover on moon. Some even question Wiki article as conspiracy theory.

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Consider literal competitions--it was similarly appalling to watch recent Olympics in the US. 95% or more of the coverage was of Americans winning. If a particular day had fewer wins, they would replay earlier footage rather than dare show any other country succeeding at non-American dominant areas. One saving grace is that the NBC app had all the footage they didn't deem worthy of broadcasting.

I can't watch the Olympics on US TV. Hours of stories about the upbringing of the US athletes interviewing moms and grandparents. Then a little actual sport if you are lucky. And certainly nothing where there isn't a US athlete/team at the front. It's unbearable.

I cannot agree more. I remember growing up it was just raw footage of events without break, and often with little or no commentary. We would sit for hours and watch the pinnicale of human physical ability. Now its 95% pomp and commentary, and you find yourself just looking up the events you wanted to watch the next day on a video hosting site. This just fits into the larger context of broadcasting digging their own grave in the glow of the internet. Even though their offerings are still often technically and artistically superior, the are bound outside like writhing beasts to their business model and it kills them by forced exposure (nessitating constant 'content'). Youtube is now doing the same by deranking channels that fail to release videos on a regular, if not frantic, schedule. Patreon is helping, but just enough to defer actually dealing with the huge problem. Its a vicious cycle.

In Maine we get the French-Language version of CBC, and they had near-constant coverage of more than just Canada. Even though I barely understand more than a few dozen words in French, it was better than watching NBC.

It's also that the PR done by NASA is about 100x as good as all the other space agencies in the world.

Really good photos and videos and web pages and TV material. Lenient sharing licenses etc.

Really good web pages? are you kidding me? lol

It's a big problem in the US that other countries only get acknowledged as in relation to the US. In a way this myopia serves the country pretty well and it's big enough to do most things themselves. But sometimes interesting things that happen in other countries get overlooked and nothing is learned.

>> Some even question Wiki article as conspiracy theory.

Is there a Wikipedia page that "some" Americans don't think is a conspiracy? Conspiracies used to be about aliens and secret research programs in bunkers. Now they are about pizza restaurants. I gave a presentation at an Airforce base where a flat-earther accused me of participating in the conspiracy. I wanted to throw him out as a dangerous or unstable person, or strap him to the underside of a plane and show him the curve in person. These days, every article, every statement, has to address the 5-10% of people who just don't believe anything anyone tells them.

I am waiting for one of the "airplanes run on compress air" conspiracy people. (It's the latest version of chemtrails.) We'll have them fill a few aircraft by hand... with buckets.

Yup, am surprised at how many people at NASA have no clue this is going on. I expected at least a retweet or a mention from NASA.

It's even worse in music, movies, and sports.

The Chinese moon CGI looked totally real.

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