Why won't our vapid M$M cover Canada's political upheaval?

[summer borealis]

Too busy with high water in Venice? Idiots.

[Captain Hilts]

1. It's the first exciting thing to happen in Canadian politics since Margaret Trudeau.

Or Mackenzie King talked to his dog.

You can tell here that he and Fala are communicating:

[HEyHEY]

6. Actually the last four years have been a non-stop thrill ride for Canadian poltics.

[annabanana]

17. .. hey HEyHEy. . . Could you give us a thumbnail of what's actually

happening that we aren't getting down here?

[Captain Hilts]

22. Sorry! I know better than that - I spend a lot of time in Toronto...

Ousting Harris was pretty exciting, but that was a while ago.

[fascisthunter]

2. to Sheild and Protect the Conservative Mind Set?

...seems to be all they do. Sell ideology but never inform. unless it is advantageous to their 'bottom-line'.

[malaise]

10. Ding Ding we have a winner

Liberal is a dirty word to M$Greedia. Go Canada!

[MadMaddie]

3. They will not cover anything like that until Obama is in office

They are manhandled by the current administration.

[HEyHEY]

4. It's fucking UN-BELIEVABLE.... I have sent some emails off. As well, the BBC has been sad coverage

I emailed a friend of mine at the Beeb and ask him what the fuck was going on. He said it was covered there, just not on the website... it's on the web now.

But CNN and the others haven't shown SHIT. I've been looking cause I like to see the coverage from outside news agencies. I've not seen a thing. Considering the economic situation, and Canada being a G-8 nation and the biggest trading partner of the USA, you'd think the nation's political situation would be an important issue.

[VADem11]

5. Nobody really cares

Our knowledge of Canada is pretty dismal. Hardly anybody knows who the PM of Canada is or can name any of the provinces. In general, international news coverage is always bad in the MSM.

[tuvor]

7. They have *never* paid attention to Canada.

We get all tingly and excited up here whenever "Canada" or one of its cities is mentioned on US TV.

[lurky]

8. They're only allowed to cover one foreign country at a time.

And there haven't been any exciting fires or explosions in Ottawa. :shrug:

[leftstreet]

9. They're not shooting each other

Oh, and they have this thing that's WAY different than our twoparty thing.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Too scary

They don't like the idea of elected officials rebelling against the ruling party and threatening to end it.

Sets a bad precedent.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. !

:thumbsup:

[Earth_First]

13. Because the 20,000 active duty NORTHCOM troops havent been fully trained yet.

They aren't ready for the insurrection quite yet.

[rockymountaindem]

23. Are you serious?

[Sebass1271]

14. can i know what happened in Canada? or what is happening?

i have not seeing anything on the news about anything going in Canada?

[Lautremont]

20. The sitting Conservative (minority) government

is about to be brought down by a no-confidence motion by a newly-formed coalition of centre and left parties that will then replace them as the ruling body.

[bertman]

21. I love that part: "coalition of centre and left parties. . ." But WE can only dream.

[rockymountaindem]

24. We already have that

For better or worse, it's called the Democratic Party.

[defendandprotect]

27. Could we have the blueprint of how that worked, PLEASE--???

[Lautremont]

28. Well, it hasn't worked yet!

The whole thing might still fall apart, depending on what the Governor-General decides and whether the more centre-right Liberals get cold feet and fail to bring the government down.

But it's not something that could be replicated in the States with the system you have, and the fixed election dates and so forth.

[defendandprotect]

29. Yes -- we have things even further askew with changing to ....

term limits --

which prevents us from holding on to the good while simply junking bad...

Was good to see you all on C-span --

They've been pretty much weighed-down by GOP into nothingness --

days of exciting programming pretty much over.

Naomi Klein says we have to move the center to the left --

Keep at it --

:)

[applegrove]

15. american coverage of Canada has gone way down in the last decade.

At least from my perspective. Seems CNN puts all international news on CNN International. And leaves CNN just for American news stories or something outstandingly shocking.

[gratuitous]

16. They don't understand a parliamentary system

And figure that nobody in the U.S. is going to understand it, either. In my case, they're right, but I still think there are significant developments going on here, and I know for a fact that the popular media don't give a tin shit.

[marmar]

18. That's why I'm glad I live in a border state and get the CBC.....

..... it's much better than the garbage that's passed off on us as "news".

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. There is something OUTSIDE of US borders? The MSM knows

its target audience. They know that the target audience cares little about what is going on outside our borders...

Even here on DU... FURIEGNER stories sink like a rock most of the time.

As to Canada, highly entertaining... for the political junkies...

All I can say is Harper you made that bed... lay on it.

[TheKentuckian]

25. The usual. Greedy fuctardisim and general revelry in ignorance.

[defendandprotect]

26. Watched some of it on C-span last night ....

but don't have OVERALL grasp of what's going on ....

[TCJ70]

30. Because this is America!

Why would we want to know about other countries? They certainly don't care about us or hear about our news! <sarcasm>