<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by stimpy:
They have sometimes resorted to heavy handed techniques to get that cooperation. The perception is that they do that "just because they are big".
Comprenez-vous?</font>
Well, I "comprenez" also, but I would be quite interested by any references you could find to back up your assertion that "this is of many things that pisses people off about Americans." I've never heard anyone ever say anything about this (being Canadian and having lived in Europe now for a couple of years).
In fact, it's news to me and I would bet to the 99.99% of people who think Channel 9 is their local UPN affiliate.
[Of course, it should be comprends, not comprenez, above.]