5 am this morning, I'm listening to live BBC coverage of the release of Burmese civil rights advocate and Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in Rangoon. There are two reporters there, one in the middle of thousands of supporters.
You can't hear anything but a roar, and yet it was such an incredible event you felt more from the confusing noises than a straightforward news story. Plus BBC had a Burma expert back in the BBC studio in London.
9 am this morning, I"m listening to live NPR coverage of the same event: from neighboring country Thailand, and get this: with a BBC reporter. NPR is nowhere near the event.
LESSON: if you want to be a successful society, you have to have the best information. NPR loses again to BBC.
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