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From: jmlang@water.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: View of the world and News.
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 15:21:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 15:21:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 04:43:35 EST
Reply-To: jmlang@water.UUCP (Jerome M Lang)
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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It is quite interesting to watch (listen to , read) news on
the U.S. networks, the anglo-canadian and the franco-canadian
networks.

For instance, in the french speaking networks, (radio, press, tv),
there is quite a lot of stuff that comes from the 
agence-France-presse. The outlook on the rest of the world
is refreshingly different. Mind you, the amount of news that
is not related to Quebec in the Quebec-based media
is depressing (I am a francophone from
New Brunswick). Note however, that the news covered there is
very often not seen in the anglo-canadian media. AND the news
(international or national) carried on canadian media is very often
ignored by the networks south of the border (and north of it, now
that I come to think of it...) The three big, ABC, CBS and NBC however
carry very very similar stuff.  Having access to three perspectives
sure gives a better picture, if the three perspectives are differents.

As an example of what happens on US news w.r.t. Canada, I remember
the anchor man saying about the Ocean Ranger disaster :
only nine [not sure about the actual figure] AMERICANS were on board.
I almost heard: fortunately only nine americans.
-- 
Je'ro^me M. Lang	   ||    jmlang@water.bitnet        jmlang@water.uucp
Dept of Applied Math       ||			  jmlang%water@waterloo.csnet
U of Waterloo		   ||  	 jmlang%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa