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Originally posted by LadyMischief
But we are not limited to only a few news institutions either, and I find that our news tends to encompass more world events than most people would think. Not much really DOES happen in Canada, but assuming your news is more diverse would likely be a mistake on your part. Come watch our news for a few weeks.. I think you would find it diverse, relevant, and fairly unbiased.
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I have Newsworld International owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Company. I find it extremely biased against the US. The Canadian pieces are like listening to Direct Fiesta read the news. Those oh, so careful adjectives that insult the US administration, the usual epithets, selective interviews. Uh huh.
Ahh, I don't really claim that the US media is more diverse than Canadian. I imagine it is quiet the same in diversity but thought I'd get under directfiesta's skin since it's so easy. ;-) He always seems to think Americans only hear positive news about the US which is absurd. Reporters gets Pulitzers for breaking news against government, not for it.
Well, the mainstream channels we have are FOX, CNN, and MSNBC which you already know. We also have CSPAN and CSPAN2 which cover both American Houses and non-american ones at times too (British House of Commons). PBS is always good. Jim Lehrer news hour is excellent.
Directfiesta mentioned British news. I watch BBC World News and
ITV.
We have a very liberal channel "LINK TV" which bills itself as "alternative". Pretty interesting channel with news from middle east, etc.
I don't get news from France but of course not many people here speak French. This isn't Quebec. I live in Miami so we do get dozens of spanish stations but I don't know Spanish.
I can order channels in Russian and many other languages but only speak German and that's not an option. Wish it were. I need to brush up on mine.
And of course, most of the news Direct Fiesta gets all excited about is written by American journalists. Probably most of the books he reads (history, politics, and so forth) are written in the US. And of course, we have an unreal number of books and magazines published from every possible perspective.