Repost: Different Yahoo Stories in US and Canada

[justinsb]

With properly working links this time

I posted this to LBN and it was labeleled a dupe, it did have some of the same info but some of the information was very different. The US version leaves out the Iraqi Prime Minister's critisizm of US troops.

US
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050710/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050710193813

Canada
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050710/ca_pr_on_wo/iraq/nc:2384

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A little Orwellian news reporting there..... Good post.

[marmar]

2. Yahoo does that a lot...

Subliminal mind-fuck America!

:argh:

[laura888]

3. wow! And nominated! n/t

[laura888]

4. Actually, the wording is slightly different...

In the U.S. version, the prime minister "complains."

In the Canadian version, he "criticizes."

[jim3775]

5. I read here this week that the AP...

has a new policy of writing two different stories on one event and it was up to each newspaper to decide which one to pick up.

[applegrove]

6. American News has always been a little special. Now it is even

more so. They have to report to the USA by reinforcing American Myths. Nobody else can swallow it.

[Kipepeo]

8. "reinforcing American myths"

spot on.

We live in a reality created by our government and media. It's not the "real world." And they can't let too much of the "real world" seep into a report (press release) because it damages belief in their consructed reality.

[applegrove]

9. Passionate Eye on CBC is running a story of Hollywood & the Military.

I will not be watching it. Will make me hurl. Plus I love Hollywood movies.

[NewJeffCT]

7. interesting - thanks

we only report good news in Iraq in the US