cool. great work.
A very informative and well-balanced show - too bad the PBS.org site knows nothing about it! Also, the 'comments form' is asking for a URL when it should be asking for an email address. It then scolds me for using an 'invalid' email address when I know it's valid. Those minor gripes aside; keep up the good work!
More, please. Americans desperately need to hear an international perspective.
Absolutely Great. A regular program like this is long overdue.
I love the idea of this show; because it shows a broader range of ideas,facts and opinions.It just feels much more conscious or aware of how things are elsewhere, as oppose to just our ?national opinion?.
I thought this show was highly unbalanced. It portrays the United States as primarily responsible for virtually all of the world's present dilemmas. While there may be some truth to certain foreign views, and it is always wise to check our motives and actions, Global Watch ripped America apart mercilessly.
First of all, the entire world is responsible for poor air quality. It makes no sense to blame the U.S. for global warming because we trade with China. China manufactures for other countries that were not even mentioned during this special. Each country is responsible for its own actions.
Secondly, everyone knows that the War on Terror is unpopular. We don't need another show to remind us. Where did these statistics come from that 26 countries have a worse view of the United States now than in 2002? Did PBS interview every type of person in every country?
Why is the Democratic Party portrayed so favorably by Global Watch? Practically nothing was mentioned about the Republicans. And have we so quickly forgotten the tense bickering between Hillary and Obama several weeks ago? That hug looked extremely awkward.
I found the following comments VERY slanted:
“We do pay a certain cost for American mistakes”
“Americans have a predilection for … almost Messianic language”
I perceived this show, Global Watch, to be anti-American and unpatriotic.
Fine program with the kind of varied opinions from real people. The US is not the only country in the world, and we need to be reminded of that.
I'm looking forward to the next presentation of Global Watch.
An important program. Keep it up!
Great program! Reminded me of another outstanding global program shown on PBS, European Journal. Both are fast-paced and concise, covering a variety of subjects in just 25 min. I am pleased to see that this program is shown several times a week, at different times, giving more folks a chance to view it.
However, there may be no hope for those Americans like Jennifer, who sadly misperceived the point of almost every spot shown in this inaugural broadcast, and who is among a vocal, but ignorant, provincially- mindlocked and misinformed portion of our population representing those that have led us down the bloody, oily, disasterous GW Bush road over the past seven years.
PBS is trusted in my house, if it's on PBS it has to be good, I'll watch Globalwatch regular most likely.
Ah, true journalism at last. I was starting to think we'd never see that vital element of our democracy again. I gravitated toward Global Watch as one does water in the desert and satiated my thirst hungrily. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
One more thing...the truth hurts. Those who cry \"unpatriotic, un-American\" should consider this: We can love our country but desire it to stay true to its principles. That means we might die for our country but should not lie for it. (Thank you Zora Neal Hurston.)
EXCELLENT PROGRAM. WE NEED MORE IN DEPTH PROGRAMS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, ETC. ALSO ENDORSE BBC WORLD, ALTHOUGH IT IS SHOWN AT 6:30AM IN KC.
EXCELLENT PROGRAM. WE NEED MORE INDEPTH PROGRAMS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL MATTERS.
I like this show and hope it comes without an agenda that is anti USA etc.
America really is not as bad as people like Moyers would have us believe. So, I ask for objectivity....don't cherry pick what you present to serve your interests and I think you'll have a long running hit.
Americans needs more international exposure.
Good luck.
I liked the tone of the show; it wasn't too preachy, it was actually pleasantly informative. One idea very prevelant in the show was the desire for people in India and China to live like Americans; I find this notion very disturbing. Just because these people can now afford better lifestyles, doesn't mean they have to blindly follow American consumerism. The idea of the American dream is more often than not betrayed in the America of today. The population is getting less productive, placated by material innovations, the masses haven't paid enough attention to their health or the environment. America's brightest economists have said that America's best hope lies in reinventing it's economy (focused around fixing some of the very real problems we face such as our environment, health etc, without loosing jobs), and it's average people saving more and not relying on credit. The people in countries such as India and China would benefit more from using their new wealth to better their lives in practical and productive ways. I have nothing against going out and having a good time; I just don't find it appropriate in todays world to focus so much on personal material excess, instead of community. When you tear down trees and parks to be replaced by, \"modern\", shopping complexes and nightclubs, as they used to be called back when I lived in India, \"where do the children play?\"
Thank you Patrick Buchanan for your tireless education of the people. Your book \"The Death of the West\" explains why we are in such turmoil. I am thankful to my children for not providing me with any grandchildren. The misery they would endure is beyond comprehention.God bless America for Americans are in a religous war that has engulfed the entire earth. The media is responsible for turning and twisting information around to make a story.
As a retired Foreign Service officer, I have despaired of seeing truly international news on the commercial channels. Your global watch made a good start and may join the BBC news on my very short must-see list. Thank you.
This is a GREAT PROGRAM, please have it more often and longer. It was very informative.
This show and the \"interviews\" have a decidely canned flavor. The show appears to be entirely scripted.
Additionally, this show is not on the same level journalism one expects and receives from Bill Moyers Journal and NOW.
I really had to double check that the channel I was tuned into was not CNN or Fox.
It had an air of watered down news and information, perhaps even propoganda on the part of the foundation supporting this.
I just caught this show by accident on my PBS statin and I thought it was excellent. Very balanced, very well done, and very interesting. US citizens need to be more aware of how the rest of the world sees us. There is life beyond our borders.
Thanks to the producers of this show and to PBS for taking on this responsibility. I hope to see more of GlobalWatch very soon.
I caught the show by accident and was impressed. Hope to see it on agin, and better, in Boston.
An excellent attempt to show how the rest of the world perceives us. Please make it a regular. Someone complained it is not \"balanced.\" Since when are most TV shows \"balanced\"? America needs to look in the mirror, even if our image has been pretty ugly of late. Again, thanks to PBS and its continued courage and willingness \"educate\" the American public. June Maguire
I made a note to watch the show and was glad I did. I feel we Americans need to be educated about how the rest of the world lives and thinks. Do they see us as just seeking the all mighty $$$? I'll be watching next week. Thank you.
A subtle anti-american agenda. Why don't you do a show on what Americans think of the rest of the world? Ask Sexy Beijing to do her man in the street videos asking about Tibet or voting out the present communist goverment. Do a show on what the victims of terrorism in the U.S., Britain and Spain, think about the war on terror. What kills me is my tax dollars support this biased reporting. Why don't you do a show about the good things the United States has done. Go to a chinese re-education camp and ask them their views. Nah! lets zing America, no fear of reprisal.
Thank you so much for doing this pilot -- please continue. I hope many Americans watch this. We need a program like this.
I just looked at the bios. No wonder the program was so good last night. Excellent people! Judy Muller and Calif Connected were great, Bret Marcus (from BW's newshour that I loved so much) with TWO DuPonts, and Daljit Dhaliwal from Frontline World (or WideAngle?). (Not to mention all the others behind the scenes.)
Please make this a regular in the lineup with Frontline, Bill Moyers, NewsHour, et al.
Glad to see my PBS dollars at work!
please make sure this will not go away.
It is time for the truth.
We need more understanding of how we are perceived by the rest of the world. Keep it coming.
My PBS station is WGBH and I had never seen this program on prime time. I happened to catch it one morning when I woke very early and could not get back to sleep. It was great. Learning how others feel about the US is so important and the show was meaty and very interesting. I am often in England and can watch programs like this but there is a dearth of them on American TV. Please let us see this in Boston at a reasonable hour.
We need much more coverage and exposure of this nature. We would be a better people for it...not just following whatever corporate media and/or \"appointed\" officials want us to know.
I also come by this by accident and found it riveting. But why only half an hour as this could easily have gone on for an hour. I'm disappointed by those who feel it has an anti-American bias. We need to know the truth and it is about time people in the media faced up to this. It's better than Moyers and Newshour as those guys put me to sleep. The lovely Ms. Dhaliwal who I have admired and followed from Charlie Rose and the BBC is perfect. Please bring us more.
I came across it by accident and enjoyed it very much. I think it did a good job at showing it as it is, which is more than what can be said for most of what passes as media coverage these days. The stories from around the world and the lovely Ms Dhaliwal who I have on Charlie Rose and the BBC does it for me. Bring us more because America needs to wake up!
Thank you KCET and PBS for bringing us this informative and timely broadcast. I found it very informative and professional with a polished style of presentation with your host, Ms Dhaiwal. I also enjoy the international news from the BBC News and PRI but have given up on Bill Moyers Journal and Now which are predictable. Please make this a regular line-up show for those of us who want to see the big picture and want to be surpised.
Wonderful!
I live six months of the year in California and six months in Paris.
I'm constntly amazed at how aware Europeans are of even \"non-headline\"issues in the US. This program can help those (few?) Americans interested in how the rest of the world perceives us. Your responders who coplain about negativity have no idea of the high esteem in which the US is held in the EU. When asked --often--how the US could re-elect GW Bush, my best explanation boils down to Americans jus not caring enough to be informed and to vote. If enough Americans watch you new program it would help greatly.
This was wonderful.
I followed up with the blog quoted from the report and found it extremely rewarding (and SO relevent) that such a grass-root perspective on an international scope had the attention given it did. I watched the pilot online after missing it on television. It just seems like this type of programming.. maybe while promoting a community of sorts, that can aggregate various pedestrian resources would be much more trustworthy and personel.
Seven questions that need to be addressed and answered but no one in our free society or media ever asks!
1.It has been told that one of the main goal and objective of attacking Iraq
and staying there is to \"fight them over there so we do not have to fight them over here”. If that is a true reason why do our politician constantly blaming and accusing the neighboring countries specially Iran and Syria for not controlling their borders effectively in order to stop enemies (jihadis) entering Iraq. Shouldn’t we encourage them to let them through so we can achieve our goal? Using the same logic, if the neighboring countries stop jihadis from entering Iraq, the enemy would try to come here to fight us. In that case the enemy may apply for US Visa or try to sneak in through our borders. In either case if we are unable to control the visa process or our borders to prevent the enemy from coming in, how do we expect other countries could prevent jihadis from getting out of their borders?
2. According to major media and politicians, one of the main reasons for Iraq War was the fact that Sadam Hussein attacked his neighboring countries. However in no occasion the names of such neighboring countries have ever been mentioned! In fact the two countries, which Sadam attacked, were Iran and Kuwait. The only and only neighboring country that he used WMD in his attack was Iran. He attacked Iran with the help and support of most Western Countries and he attacked Kuwait after he received a green light from US. Obviously the way Iraq was under control after the Gulf War, Sadam was in no position to attack Kuwait again. That would leave only Iran vulnerable. The same country that our option of military action against it, has been on the table for quite while. The main question is did we attack Iraq to prevent another Sadam attack on Iran? It does not appear to be a reasonable conclusion.
3.Another excuse for attacking Iraq has been said to prevent fanatic Moslems from coming here and forcing us to change our way of life and making us to convert to Islam. Since it is a fact that in Islam Christianity is highly respected because it is an Ebrahimian religion and Jesus is regarded as a holly man or god’s prophet similar to Mohammed. Why Moslems should start imposing Islam on Christian before they impose it to more than a billion people in China and Far East Asia who would have priority in such mission since their religion is regarded as none-Ebrahimian and therefore “infidel”. In fact what is seen today mostly is that majority Moslem nations including Iran, maintain great and close relationship with countries that are supposed to be “infidel”.
4.Most Moslems believe that if they can convince any person from other religions to convert to Islam, they both would increase their chance to have a special place in Heaven. If fanatic Moslems truly hate us for our freedom or other reasons, why would any sane Moslem would go thru so much trouble to convert some one who he hates so to end up with the that person in Heaven for ever?
5.Another reason to attack Iraq has been said to promote freedom and democracy. If that is true, wouldn’t have been much easier and less costlier in terms of human life and money to start with our good allies such as Saudi Arabia who is one of the most oppressive regime in the entire world? After all 16 out of 19 highjackers were from Saudi Arabia. Perhaps that itself would have been a logical reason. How about Egypt another ally and oppressive regime?
6.If “they hate us for our freedom”, would it be ironic to minimize our freedom as time passes? Wouldn’t we make sure our enemies’ wish would be met by taking such actions?
7.Many of members of Senate and Congress who voted for the Iraq War including Hillary Clinton have said that they voted for Iraq War after they did extensive research. According to 60 Minutes most of the evidence could have been found without merit within minutes if one would have used the Internet (such as Google). Does any one know what sort of research Hilary performed that convinced her to make such an important decision? A decision that its outcome still affecting millions of lives for the worst.
Frankly, it is very much clear that most of our problems with Middle Eastern Countries is due to our inconsistent and unfair foreign policy. For example we support an extremely oppressive government like Saudi Arabia and at the same time we criticize and agitate countries like Iran. Although Iran maintains probably the most open society in the Middle East, not to mention the fact that unlike our so-called “Allies”, they have full parliament and presidential elections. Contrary to what has been repeatedly claimed in the media” we are hated for our freedom”. We are hated because although we enjoy our freedom, our government tries its best to stop them from obtaining and enjoying the same freedom in their countries. Most people living under oppressive regimes resent US because their oppressive governments have been able to remain in power mainly with direct and indirect US support. Religion does not play any roll in their resentment. Religion may play in method they choose to achieve their goals that is mainly to obtain similar freedom as we have and enjoy.
Great show. I look and hard for a balanced view. Thanks
I missed the broadcast and I was grateful to find it online after a bit of digging around. Hope this becomes a regular program on PBS. Americans need to hear and see how the world sees us.
I was very pleased with the initial program, which I only happened upon at 4:00 a.m. when I awoke at an hour that was too early for much more than TV watching. I certainly hope the show will become a regular event, although at a more convenient hour.
I've always been intrigued by how the U.S. is perceived by others around the world. We can gain a great deal of needed perspective by listening to the opinions of our global neighbors.
I was lucky to catch this program at 3.30am. It was excellent and should be on at a time more widely viewed. Keep up the good work.
Great work. I would suggest adding a chapter feature for programs that are so long. Keep it up!
Great show! Very good selection of bloggers! Nina was especially cute ![\"\"](\"http://www.haloscan.com/images/smileys/clin_oeil.gif\")
This is a great concept and sorely needed. The pilot was very, very well done. Thank you.
Most Americans know little of how they are seen by the world. This program is a great service, and sorely needed. The pilot was well done. More, please!
Good, continue, please. I am an Italian citizen resident in the U.S. and I believe Americans need so much a more exterior viewpoint to look and evaluate their own choices, and to really be on the same wagon with the rest of the world.
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Thank you!
The arrogance of the Bush admin. has traveled far and wide. Our helpless personal anger with their disrespect for global points of view is in need this support. Well done.
I would like to see this become nightly news program. Local, National, Global: We could be the leaders in this global view point.
It would have to have very fair minded editing and not allow control by national politics. Bill Moyers can not do it by himself.
I liked the show.
Current events we are all familiar with internationally. Socio-Political agendas that effect us all eventually. Even though there is a Spin factor to all media reports aimed at western eurocentric concerns and interests otherwise it would not Be news if it did not have a wow factor or some stat figure to glaze over the matter. Our (Western) History shows that Democracy in one place is not the same Belief system enjoyed by all race religion gender workers represented by elect governments elsewhere.
who made \"The West\" the Shining Bastion for freedom and equality and by this right alone use Historical rhetoric and nationalism to enforce A version of democracy thats fundamentally isolationist so Structured its social interests are made for Corporations. Dominating trends making other countries foot the shareholders demands.
Branding Peace on the \"Oppressed\" of other regimes or governments (People).
Ethics aside i identify more with The west cause my ancestors were from the U.K i prefer american trends and pop culture.
even though New Zealand is situated in the remote southern pacific ocean.
its my individuality and rights as a person that defines me. To be part of this society.
I watched the pilot and really liked it. We need more programs with a global perspective on KCTS. In order to solve the global challenges confronting us now and in the future, Americans need to understand how we are seen by others in the global community. Please add this weekly program to the KCTS viewing schedule.
Thank you very much! Yours is an outstanding Program! Your international focus at a global scale is sincerely appreciated. Daljit Dhaliwal's professionalism is extraordinary. Keep up the good work because I am telling relatives & friends about watching your broadcasts too.
P.S.- Please note I was especially touched by a report several months ago about global warming in Bangladesh. Thanks, again!
After watching a broadcast about the rising tide of music such as rap, hip-hop and rock & roll being used to spread their dislike of the ideals that our country is based upon as being a complete slap in the face. I am outraged that they would adopt music originated by our cultures to do this. If we're so bad then why do they try so hard to immulate what we are? When u watch these newer generations striving to copy us it has to make one wonder if the strife created by the older generations isn't fueled more by jealousy than an actual obligation to their own moral code. Doesn't this world have enough problems? Let's get it together people!
I find it interesting that so many young Persians admire American culture and bear us little ill will, yet hated the Bush administration and it's policies. Unfortunately, based on Obama's cabinet picks, I question how much our relations with Iran will actually improve. And will Iran, under IAEC supervision, agree to exchange plutonium-enriched spent uranium rods from it's newest atomic power plant for fresh enriched uranium rods from Russia (it's atomic energy supplier)? And would Russia agree?
As for Russia, rather than a policy of geopolitical encirclement that only serves to fuel their paranoia about the West, how come the U.S. stands in the way of NATO offering membership to Russia itself. Membership has to be contingent on certain free press and policy issues being addressed, as well as military cooperation (which Russia may not see as being in it's interest at this time) but has such an offer ever been made? And would the U.S. take steps to block such a move?
Finally, China has the ability to make changes the U.S. cannot do (until mass demonstrations overcome inertia and corrupt special interest money). They need to build many nuclear power plants, some to reduce dependency on coal usage, some to dedicate to the production of hydrogen. The latter would be used to migrate their modest existing consumer base of cars from fossil fuels to hydrogen (biodiesel requires crop acreage and drives up food commodities unnecessarily). Add solar, wind, and tidal energy sources, and the growing Chinese middle class can safely be upwardly mobile with a far lower impact on their environment than the U.S. or even Europe.
I wish I could bring these proposals directly to the governments involved, because each one of these scenarios creates an everybody wins situation.
Our country's view of itself is so self-righteous we have been unable to see ourselves as others see us. Many of our citizens have not had the opportunity to travel outside of the US to experience this. Our 24/7 news is unbalanced and ethnocentric. Global Watch is providing us a valuable resource. Keep them coming.