Most people in the US don't even know about the CBC or the BBC. They won't see anything that's covered by those organizations. Most people in the US will not be impacted in any way by any reportage coming from those sources. If they don't know about it, they can't react to it.

My own opinion, now that I've thought about it a little bit, is that the only way for things to change is for people, in the US and elsewhere, to help other people learn how to read and watch the news with a lot of skepticism, no matter what the source. Don't accept anything from any news source at face value. Get the main points being presented from the media outlets and thorougly investigate them yourself. Then form your own conclusions.

We (the voters) are just too easily bought. That needs to change before there will be any real change in the way the US does things. I think the voters in quite a few countries are too easily bought.

I tend to suspect that the only way the US will be taken down a peg will be through outside forces over which the US cannot prevail, like the world econonomy making the US irrelevant as a super power. Of course, the main behind-the-scenes string pullers will largely remain the same, regardless of which country dominates, so probably not much will change even then.

So I think that what will finally make the difference will be that the on the ground reality will eventually favor things that are fairly small and independent rather than large and monolithic. And that's when humanity will be forced to adopt a stance that is based on enlightened self-interest rather than on greed and corruption.

On the subject of Dr. King... of course he made an immense difference. Much changed substantially because of his methods and his work. However, not anywhere near as much as you might tend to think.

JtS and I live in a neighborhood that, as far as we have been able to determine, has never had any non-African American residents in it's entire history (almost one hundred years), until we moved in. That isn't because of de jure segregation... more of a de facto segregation. But it's still segregation, and it's still a problem in many places in the US almost a half century after Dr. King was killed. There's still a hell of a lot of that sort of thing in this country. And one person, or even a whole bunch of people marching couldn't change that. The only way to change it is for individuals to conduct their lives with conscience and personal integrity, and to show others through their actions and their behavior what is possible.

I think that's the sort of thing that will be required in order to make the other needed changes to our society as well. Think globally, act locally.