I watch a lot of news. As I live in Canada, I get not only Canadian News Channels, but also have access to CNN, FOX NEWS, MSNBC, HLN, those business news channels etc, as well as BBC World and Al Jazeera. It baffles me on how different the US news stations are to the Canadian and the two international ones I get, particularly for the lack of international news and real news reporting/investigating in favour of fear mongering, hype, opinion and regurgitating pre-defined talking points.
This morning, after MSNBC fouled up on the names of the Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive I decided to skim the other news channels to see what they were talking about. This is what I found:
US Channels:
CNN – US Tax debate and a lot of talk about Nancy Pelosi
FOX – Mike Castle getting offered a job at Whitehouse
MSNBC – Tax debate
Canadian Channels (just the two English National ones)
CBC – Philippine hostage fallout
CTV – Election security in Kabul
International
BBC – Exiled Chechen leader arrested
Al Jazeera – fraud at Kabul election.
I wonder how many Americans knew there was an election about to happen in Afghanistan? I would be that majority of the minority that are aware certainly didn’t get it from the US MSM.
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