U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming an ‘unhealthy’ amount of American news
Is it weird to be an American interested in Canadian news?
uh huh
so why would Canadian's informing themselves on the happenings of our neighbors be unhealthy?🤔🤔🤔🤔
He added that it’s come at the expense of Canadians consuming news about their own country’s politics.
that's not how that works, just cause I inform myself on what's happening in the US cause I also have friends there doesn't mean I'm less informed on what's happening over here, in fact:
I'd say it's the opposite as I'm more concerned and informed about the pros that's US citizens are gaining such as Right to Repair and the cons of the degradation of citizen rights that are being replicated here
Consuming anything from Fox news is def bad as you're not even consuming junk food at that point but rage bait poison
But that is what they consume.
Didn't something just come out that Alberta has a higher trump approval rating than anywhere in america or some dumb shit like that?
That doesn't happen by consuming responsible news sources. That happens from Fox non-news.
Remember when Princess Diana died? People in the US were pretty interesting in that, I thought it was weird.
yup
people can and should be allowed to be interested in things foreign to themselves
I mean, yeah duh? What, you think that conservative right-wing movement was fully homegrown? Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta! Hatred is America's export now.
That boat sailed with Murdoch buying out all the news companies and beaming his rags and "news" channels around the western world after he conquered Australia. He used his power to weaken laws that used to hedge against this kind of nonsense.
Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta!
Historically Europe (and the British Empire) sided with the confederacy because they saw a united USA as a potential industrial rival, whereas the south was more of a resource colony. Interestingly there was a major class divide in Europe where the working classes were anti-slavery and therefore anti-confederate wheras the upper classes saw the confederate cause being in their interest. There's a book about this called A Cause for All Nations by Don Doyle.
My understanding is that nowadays the confederate flag is used by people outside the USA who are on the fascist end of the spectrum for whom Nazi or fascist symbols are too extreme (or just illegal) in their countries.
To be fair its global (eg.US and Hungary). Fascism always has been (eg Germany and Japan)
God, tell me about it. My mother watches Fox and gets her opinions of US politics from there with predictable results, and she's even infected my dad with the idiocy, and he's just a sweet guy that's getting radicalized by that bullshit.
It's scary to watch, I can't imagine how people deal with this constant propaganda in the actual US.
We cut off our families who watch Fox.
Oh down here we mostly just cope however we can. Or get radicalized in whichever direction seems right
That's ok, so are Americans.
I would absolutely love to stop following American news, and that will happen when I don't have to worry about Trumpf infecting world politics.
Like it or not, what happens in America ripples through the whole world. Doubly so in Canada because we share a very long border.
Our politicians especially tend to follow the trends that politicians down there set; to the point where we have our own little mini-DeSantis running for Prime Minister.
What's the Canadian equivalent of Florida?
Unfortunately Saskatchewan (my province). Alberta next door is Texas, and Saskatchewan wants to be like them, but our government is far far dumber.
Our Mini-Desantis is Pierre Pollieve.
our own little mini-DeSantis
the one who wants to de-fund the CBC so that Canadians can consume even less Canadian news.
We can’t even get our own news on Facebook anymore!
Anyway I think a much bigger problem is the death of local newspapers which has caused people to ignore local politics even more so. Some of our biggest problems in society (housing, lack of community, alienation and depression) can be traced back to terrible decisions made at a municipal level.
They are. As an American I don't get why my Canadian friends are so engaged. It's not right.
We are worried about what we would have to do if you guys starts shooting at each other. Like where would we put the refugees.
To be fair, it's because US politics at the moment is a train-wreck in progress and its hard to look away. Or, more accurately, the US news portrays US politics as a train-wreck in progress, with civil war and right-wing dictatorship just over the horizon. Both political parties and the whole media establishment are literally spending billions of dollars to attract eyeballs, so the drama of US presidential politics is off-the-scale and the whole world is watching, not just Canada.
Canadian politics at the moment is a snooze-fest by comparison. However, when crazy US-style drama does go down in Canada, like when our COVID trucker convoy noisily occupied Ottawa for a few weeks, we were glued to that instead.
For Americans, you can think of Canada as being like Minnesota. Sure, we get a dramatic event every once in a while, but mostly it's boringly reasonable, center-left, earnest, and low-drama.
For instance, half of the content on Lemmy is American politics and news. It can be hard as a non-American to find a good balance of content that’s closer to home.
Half is a bit conservative. For non news/politics stuff, it's a fraction that has anything to do specifically with the USA. If it's news/politics related it's well over 75%
The US is the greatest threat to all life in the world with their massive Nuclear arsenal. If New York takes an ICBM, it'll affect Toronto and likely Ottawa too.
I treat it like a reality TV show. The characters are pretty engaging and if I acknowledge that it's real life I get depressed
Americans consume an unhealthy amount of American "news". And food.
I’m American and I don’t willingly watch most American news
We have some great news media, though. I haven't found a good SA or EU or Canadian equivalent for Democracy Now
Is he afraid we are going to use it all up? If you don't want the world watching then don't be a godamned circus fire 24/7.
Well, Canada is a part of North America so it makes sense
Decouple our economy and politics and then we’ll talk.
Literally can not be done. Canada doesn't manufacture enough to become self sufficient (thanks outsourcing).
Well, you don't need total autarky. Just a way of running our major sectors over the ocean if we're forced to.
"news"
My mom was watching CNN in her bedroom to watch the trump Train wreck whenever she visited us. We cancelled our cable subscription to get rid of it and we just get OTA local news now.
Really no loss, if a big news event happens it’s still carried live here on Canadian stations.