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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Of course, it being the Guardian, it has to blame America
Never mind that the two biggest of these are owned by a British company (Penguin) and German (Random House)...and Hachette is owned by a French company. And Harper Collins is owned by News Corp, which is owned by an Australian.
They might be US companies, but non-Americans are pulling the strings...
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Thank you.
America's omnipotence is vastly over-estimated. We're on the verge of being a third world country...albeit a very big one. Look at our roads, our airports, our health care system, our Congress, our economy, our educational system, and our culture in general, and it's hard to find any reason other than pure jingoism to stab our fingers in the air and proclaim, "We're #1! We're #1!"
This not-#1-edness does relieve us of a lot of responsibility for all that is wrong with the world. Penguin for example (British) seems to be as clueless as the densest American corporation...say, General Motors or Hewlett-Packard, who seem bent on self-destruction.