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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Legit news outlets?
I got a little smile here:
The Le Droit report that Erik Bedard is signing with the Pirates has been picked up by what Dejan Kovacevic characterizes as a legit news outlet.
The big french media in Canada would be the daily newspaper La Presse, and the ESPN-equivalent RDS. You don’t get more legit than that. It’s not that I expect Americans to know about Canada as much as Canada knows about Americans. After all, Canada depends on US entertainment and other resources.(*)
But, I still smiled when I saw the whole conditional part of the sentence.
(*) I remember when Ted Turner announced the launching of CNN, talking about how it will get world news, a Canadian reporter asked if CNN would have any Canadian focus. Turner, rather than thinking that Canada will have people who will buy a CNN package, instead said something funny. From memory, he said:
“Listen, the only reason we talk about Russia is because they are a nuclear threat. So, if Canada points their ICBMs at America, then we’ll cover Canada. Otherwise, no.”
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