Hughes Politics

This week, I wanted to return to an old topic with a new perspective . France24  is a French state owned news company that covers global issues. Looking at their American section, I saw they did an article on the Martha's Vineyard scandal that has been ongoing, and decided to take a look as I have already analyzed the perspective of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . I already noticed some stark and obscure differences between the two. As mentioned in my first blog, there exists a Canadian anxiety to be fundamentally anti American on at least the cultural front. Because of this, the CBC tends to take a stance of the United State's affairs while France tends to remain impartial. The CBC article on the topic used specific language to inflict an emotion upon the audience to persuade it empathize with the migrants; "coward" to describe Governor Ron DeSantis and "political pawns" to describe the migrants.  The French article looks nothing like the Canadian

With 2022 being an election year, although not a presidential election year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on a trend I have noticed through my entire life. There has always been a threat, a fairly empty threat from the American left to mass migrate to Canada if the Republican presidential candidate in any given election were to emerge victorious. The Canadians also have a history of egging them on to do so, and tend to post media favoring the idea in some profound sense of Canadian exceptionalism, a glaring example of how Canadian nationalism is fundamentally bound in anti-Americanism.  Canada TV, a Canadian News network posted an article back in 2020 titled "'I'm not comfortable living here': More Americans did actually try to move to Canada since Trump's 2016 election."  The article shows a graph of the number of permanent resident applications submitted by Americans, with a spike from about 7,700 in 2016 to over 9,000 in 2017. The article actually d

Last week, I covered the public broadcasting company of the British government, and their coverage of the America abortion debate. This week, I want to look at the public broadcasting company of Canada and their coverage of the most recent immigration stunt made by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to the article titled "Florida governor used families as 'pawns' with Martha's Vineyard stunt: Democrat,"   forty eight people, mostly Venezuelan, were flown from San Antonio, Texas to the island of Martha's Vineyard on a plane paid for by the Florida governor. The article begins with Democratic Representative Dylan Fernandes stating that Governor DeSantis is a "coward" and "weak human being." Then, they begin to elaborate how this is just one instance in a larger scheme to send illegal immigrants to Northern sanctuary cities. The article take special time to outline the conditions which these migrants had to face such as how many children

In the last post, I discussed the natural anxieties of the Canadian government towards the United States and I don't want to entirely focus on my second homeland. Instead, I intend to look at media from major democracies around the globe and possibly even some of our adversaries to attempt to understand how they view American policy. Today, we will be looking at the British Broadcasting Company, Britain's public media service, and their coverage of the US abortion debate.  Just scrolling through the list on the first page, it is easy to see that for the last couple months BBC has been covering the American abortion debate two to three times a week at times. The subject matter is overwhelmingly written about the perspective of American women seeking abortions, states where abortion is contentious and celebrities that advocate for a woman's right to choose.  In Britain, abortion is legal with overwhelming support and British citizens have access to free healthcare as a right.

Hello Everyone! Please use the link below to view the video I will be discussing about today. I decided to use my first post to outline a bit what some of the anxieties associated with the Canadian media, their coverage of the United States, and public opinion towards the United States as a whole. I think it would help to explain how there are some differences in the perceived role of media by the American and Canadian federal governments. This video was made by Canadian Youtuber and former political pundit, J.J. McCullough who is an openly gay conservative. J.J. is well educated and a talented researcher, allowing him to offer holistic perspectives on a wide range of topics from television shows, to flags and more.  In this video titled "Let's watch some CANADIAN PROPAGANDA!" J.J. attempts to break down the image of Canada being portrayed through the "Canada Nice" video released by the Canadian government, and the motivations of why they would they chose the im