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Can you explain that differently? I've read your comment a few times and haven't been able to grasp it. My comment, based on a possibly faulty interpretation
by thechangelog 15y ago
Can you explain that differently? I've read your comment a few times and haven't been able to grasp it.
My comment, based on a possibly faulty interpretation of your comment:
I don't feel entitled to get US media as a Canadian. It's just extremely prevalent. Our country watches CSI at the same time yours does, and American Idol, and pretty much everything else. So we get used to feeling like members of the US media market. Sure we have our Rick Mercer Report, et al, but the dominant media is American.
I certainly didn't mean to complain. I understand that negotiating distributions rights for a country a tenth the size isn't high on the priority list of US distributors. What I was trying to say is that it catches us of guard (though less and less frequently) to find that for online services we are often excluded when for so much of our daily media lives we are full-fledged, practicing Americans.
- a-US-er 15y agoYou hear non-Americans complaining constantly about America's "cultural imperialism," that they're inundated with American TV shows and movies of low quality, but then as soon as they're unable to get their fix of American media, (or least not able to get it as easily), they start to complain: "Why isn't Hulu available in my country!?"