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The "news" are just another form of entertainment. And there a fraction of the entertainment going on in Canada that exists south of the border so people flock

• xemoka 2y ago
  What's so annoying is that this isn't even true. There is a lot of local news and interesting happenings all across our country, yet no one here to cover it. It's cheaper to repackage US news as interesting to canadians (how does this US thing affect canada, with an opinion) or just for voyeurism. Watching televised news, I end up knowing more about what's happening as a "human interest" story in some small US town than what happened across our country. Canadian media has been gutted, and nothing our government is doing actually works---or just fiddles with the knobs ever so slightly so that it appears as we're doing something, when the results are indistinguishable from the null.
• InsideOutSanta 2y ago
  This exactly. The US is great at exporting entertainment, and politics is just another form of it. People in Canada and Europe go to see American movies, listen to American music, and watch American politics. That's why American news isn't about actual things that actually happen, it's not about political positions and legislation, it's instead mostly about fights between people, about who is scoring points against whom, and who is doing better in the polls, and we're all part of a team, and we hate the people who are on the other team. It's sports, but easier to understand than football, quicker than baseball, and more violent than basketball.