Flame away but many miss the point. What else would you describe an obsession on focusing on negative stories out of America? Look at some related threads as an unscientific example. You have 13 responses and ~800 views on a horrible mass shooting in Toronto and slightly more with the Eaton Centre shootings compared to 30K view range and 800 plus responses for the Colorado shootings. There are fewer with the Wisconsin Sikh killings but certainly more interest than the Canadian shootings combined. Sure they are different to some extent, but to me it partly says we enjoy criticizing or watching America suffer from their “stupidity” which makes us feel better as a nation. It is some kind of complex.
I see anti Americanism reinforced time and again in Canadian media without the slightest hint of irony of how similar our societies really are but for an order of magnitude. At the very least, it seems if bad news sells to Canadians, it will be American bad news.
Someone gave the example of Mars Curiosity. Look at a sampling of the word usage in that thread. You will see many posts with “we” and “us” blended in as it should be.
You won’t find that so much in the Colorado shooting thread. That it is strictly an American phenomenon and blissfully ignore our own gun control issues or human tragedies.
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