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From: jmlang@water.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: View of the world and News.
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Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 20:42:30 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 22 20:42:30 1987
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Reply-To: jmlang@water.UUCP (Jerome M Lang)
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In article <3045@watdcsu.UUCP> brewster@watdcsu.UUCP (Dave Brewer, SysDesEng, PAMI, UWaterloo) writes:
>>From: jmlang@water.UUCP (Jerome M Lang)
>
>>As an example of what happens on US news w.r.t. Canada ...

>    Lets not blow our own horn about how noble and worldly we Canadians
>    are. 

My point is not that WE CANADIANS are better nor is it that we are worst.
Rather, it is that :
1- we get a better view of the world if we have access to many sources
   of information.
2- in the US, there are 3 major tv networks and they have almost
   no difference in perspective for the news.
3- Having basically one point of view in the news necessarily gives one
   are rather poor idea of what's going on in the world, and that
   sometimes elsewhere can be just as good even though it is different.

4- Have you listened to very different news: Radio Cuba or Radio Moscow?
   Of course it is biased, but so is Voice of America. The two together,
   and add Radio Canada International (doing great even with all the cuts),
   Radio Australia, and Radio Netherlands, BBC, etc. and you get a reasonable
   idea of where things are slanted, and where things are better presented.

I learned recently that 60% of the citizens in the neighboring country
have never left their home state. I suspect most Americans, (and Canadians)
rarely if ever bother to get news from different sources. No wonder
we Canadians are not well understood south of the border, and Americans
north of their border.

Oh, by the way, I do not pretend that I am better informed than most of you
are. It is just that sometimes I did catch some conflicting reports when
listening to some of the sources I mentionned above. To bad time is a bit
short to do some Short Wave Listening lately.

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Dept of Applied Math       ||			  jmlang%water@waterloo.csnet
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