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] Date Posted: 17:44:11 11/19/04 Fri In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "Carolyn Parrish has quit the Liberals and is now going to sit as an Independent - further reducing the Liberal minority" on 16:57:37 11/19/04 Fri I get most of my news from the BBC website, and it allows the e-news nerd to select world news by region; and while the 'Americas' section is naturally dominated by American reports, there is plenty of Canadian stuff there. Mind you, I have to admit that it contains more South American news than Canadian news, but this is mainly because there is more exciting and sexy stuff going on down there: coups, drug cartels, civil wars, the kidnapping of British trekkers, the Venezuelans giving us problems over Belize, French space rockets exploding in a more than usually catastrophic way... Canada, like Britain, is usually to civilised and organised to feature prominently in the news reports of other countries in different parts of the world. I'm not saying it's right, just that it's so. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:11:54 11/19/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Paddy (Scotland) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:28:11 11/19/04 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:02:46 11/19/04 Fri But then, of course, we put on a lot of dog about how the Yanks are ignorant and ill-informed and couldn't find Canada - or, indeed, the USA - on a map; we all have stories about this sort of thing: in my case, there was a Texan girl who couldn't place France on my Atlas having just come back from a weekend in Paris, and was amazed to discover at 23 that Japan was an island nation. But frankly do you have a much higher opinion of the great mass of the British public? Who is the President of Armenia? What is the capital of Eritrea? Which community in which country speaks Uighur? You and I might know these things, but do readers of the Daily Mail know or indeed care? We live in a consumer society, and our news, like everything else, is not given emphasis according to importance, or even significance, which is a very different thing; it is emphasied according to what people will be most interested in. And in this context, my local paper had a cat-up-tree story on Sept. 12th 2001, and the fox-hunting ban has been accorded more air-time than that business in Fallujah. We mustn't blame the media or the government for such scandalously bad reporting, but ourselves. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |