Connections: The American Election Explained
November 8, 2012
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Amen to all that.
QFT:
Yeah – that’s great to read in print!
Ironic that a Sun writer would castigate Canada’s “somnambulant electorate”. Try getting any real information about and policies of the current government and their real effects in that paper or most of our mainstream media. Or have they forgotten the role of a free press is to question power not cheerlead it?
The Obama crowd seems a little weary on what he speaks, now Rommey crowd seems gungho everything that Rommey speaks
For what it’s worth, the Vancouver Sun paywall blocks articles for readers that have the temerity to read more than 10 news articles a month.
To me, the discussion of the consequences of ignoring and ostracizing the very demographic groups that are growing most quickly in American society, and the incredible peril of insulating oneself in an ideological bubble and assiduously avoiding reality-based news, are the two most interesting outcomes of this US election. They are every bit as relevant here in Canada and in Vancouver’s local political environment.
I worry a lot about the negative effects of paywalls on news sites, like the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail, especially when these aim to be our newspapers of record. The New York Times has all-but abandoned its paywall and, among other benefits, that opened the door to broad readership of Nat Silver’s contributions to the election, which are central to the discussion about the conservatives’ surprise at Romney’s landslide loss.
The US is still over 70% white. What a racist post this is. Typical “Progressive”, divide and conquer.
Haha! Good one!