11-02-2004, 10:05 AM
We'll be veering around all over the place. but after many years of being an ABC loyalist with nice (Canadian) Peter Jennings, in the past few months and during the convention coverage I've swayed far more towards Tom Brokaw and NBC. I don't know the nuances of U.S network news, but he seems a pretty fair, no-nonsense news guy.
CBS now has no credibility with me at all, following the recent scandals and I've always disliked Dan Rather anyway, whose always come across to me as a nit-wit.
PBS seem balanced and fair but a trifle dull.
We'll also dip into CNN, BBC World and Euronews for some global perspective and our own coverage on CBC TV (which I suspect will be simulcast on NWI in the U.S). There's a great old CBC news guy, with a big Easter Island head, called Henry Champ, who tells it like it is. I never tire of watching him.
We don't get Fox News up here by the way or I'd certainly have a peek, if only for entertainment value.
Canadians aren't overly enthusiastic about either outcome by the way. Although their social and foreign policy is at odds with the Bush administration (opposing the war in Iraq, legalising gay marriage, proposed decriminalisation of marijuana) they have recently become alarmed by Kerry's protectionist noises. He says he would stop the outsourcing of jobs to Canada. John Edwards has even said he would re-negotiate NAFTA and voted against it. Canada would still be way to the left of Kerry anyway, were he to win. Some Canadians are starting to think better the Dubya you know if it means we keep the trade relationship.
CBS now has no credibility with me at all, following the recent scandals and I've always disliked Dan Rather anyway, whose always come across to me as a nit-wit.
PBS seem balanced and fair but a trifle dull.
We'll also dip into CNN, BBC World and Euronews for some global perspective and our own coverage on CBC TV (which I suspect will be simulcast on NWI in the U.S). There's a great old CBC news guy, with a big Easter Island head, called Henry Champ, who tells it like it is. I never tire of watching him.
We don't get Fox News up here by the way or I'd certainly have a peek, if only for entertainment value.
Canadians aren't overly enthusiastic about either outcome by the way. Although their social and foreign policy is at odds with the Bush administration (opposing the war in Iraq, legalising gay marriage, proposed decriminalisation of marijuana) they have recently become alarmed by Kerry's protectionist noises. He says he would stop the outsourcing of jobs to Canada. John Edwards has even said he would re-negotiate NAFTA and voted against it. Canada would still be way to the left of Kerry anyway, were he to win. Some Canadians are starting to think better the Dubya you know if it means we keep the trade relationship.