How is Canada Perceived From Where You sit?

[Parallo]

Is Fox America's only news channel? Are there channels with news on them? Like proper news? I won't say unbiased but not twisted one way entirerly?

[Coneitic]

no... you have two media types.

republican and liberal

any unbias information you want, you research it yourself.

like most other countries

[Parallo]

All I ever hear is ranting about Fox. If so many people are so upset about it all why has noone made an alternative? Media is an important tool.

[Coneitic]

because, half the population likes fox news and half doesnt, so it would be unfair to take it off the air because some dont like it... that wouldnt be american

[Parallo]

I don't mean take it away. If its half and half divided into people that want and don't want biased news then surely between that one half of the richest country in the world they have enough money to start a station of their own.

[Coneitic]

they do, its called cnn =)

[Parallo]

So CNN is unbiased? Why are you complaining?

[Coneitic]

oh sorry i read your post wrong. cnn is biased.. liberal side

the reason there is no unbiased media is because almost everyone is biased to one side or another, very few are unbiased.

[Parallo]

Well then. Just watch both and try to get the ratio just right and then you have the truth

[Coneitic]

thats what the smart ones do!

the rest make post like datruth =) just kidding....

[zorbels]

@ zorbels

canada's media is just as bad as americans. i used to watch canadian news when i lived in new york.

tho they dont talk to much about violence and problems, mainly cuz they have less than america.

they all still jump at the chance to report on problems. especially american problems. ive seen it plenty of times. especially when the war started.

all in all the media is the worst part about the world... but then again the people that watch/read it/listen to it, are just as bad as the media.

I am aware of what Canada's media is like. I live here. I never claimed in anyway that Canada's news wasn't bad so I am not sure why you are talking to me like I did? As a matter of fact I was pointing out that all media create's bad impressions of our countries to each other. I dislike the media personally and I can't believe a word of it because I can't tell what is true and what isn't. I was pointing out to Tuxide that just because the Canadian  media gives the impression we Canadians hate the USA because of their president .... doesn't make it true and in fact it couldn't be further from the truth for me. I was an example and a canadian that didn't by into the false crap channeled my way by the Canadian media.

they all still jump at the chance to report on problems. especially american problems. ive seen it plenty of times. especially when the war started.

Yup, just like the USA's media jumped all over Canada when we didn't want to send our troops out into this war. Are you surprised? I am not, it is the media ... that's what they are good at. Nobodies media is better or worse than anyone else's. The media goes where the stories are at. If you have juicy news then your in the spot light and all over the television.

[bilbous]

99% of everything is owned by 1% of everyone and they stick it to the rest of us. Feudalism never left the scene it just put on a disguise. Freedom is an illusion fostered by the elite to pacify the masses. Bread and circus's to eternity.

[emeraldfool]

99% of everything is owned by 1% of everyone and they stick it to the rest of us. Feudalism never left the scene it just put on a disguise. Freedom is an illusion fostered by the elite to pacify the masses. Bread and circus's to eternity.

Lol, that sounds just what one of them in-bred kalashnikov-totting militia hicks would say (Not that I'm accusing you of that...)



Anyway, it seems the best way to get unbiased news is to watch a foreign news station. RTE doesn't give a crap about American/Candian relations, or Liberal vs. Conservative American political ideals. The same way FOX doesn't give a crap about N.Ireland/Ireland relations or Loyalist vs. National political ideals.

And so you just get the plain facts, rattled off by a yawning newscaster...

[Kalika]

Is Fox America's only news channel? Are there channels with news on them? Like proper news? I won't say unbiased but not twisted one way entirerly?

in a way coneitic is right. we do have a lot of bias in our country. its jsut that way now, our country has been metaphorically "split" in half...we just use the terms "conservative" adn "liberal" to designate people. i dont konw about the news channels, i dunnos about which one leans to which side...parallo i think made a good point on watching both, because one side wil leave some stuff out and so will the other. its all stupid politics.

in an ideal situation we would have "pure" news. unfiltered and the actual facts. but well, america is definately not in an ideal situation, and most likely lots of other parts of the world are not in an ideal situation, so erm yeah

i dunnos...i still like Canada though (lost my thought( *kalika blushes*

[bilbous]

Lol, that sounds just what one of them in-bred kalashnikov-totting militia hicks would say (Not that I'm accusing you of that...)

Well it is a bit of an exaggeration but when you start to think about it it is essentially true. I look around my apartment and see everything I own adds up to about 5000 things, although some of those things are collections of smaller things, an old stamp collection for example I am counting as one thing. My clothes are counted separately, but the parts in my three old computers are not.

Anyway, it seems the best way to get unbiased news is to watch a foreign news station. RTE doesn't give a crap about American/Candian relations, or Liberal vs. Conservative American political ideals. The same way FOX doesn't give a crap about N.Ireland/Ireland relations or Loyalist vs. National political ideals.

And so you just get the plain facts, rattled off by a yawning newscaster...

There is no such thing as unbiased reporting any more, there never was. It used to be said that the better media tried to be objective it seems pretty rare now.

Oh and Canada likes Kalika