NEW CANADIAN AMBASSADOR SEES U.S. MEDIA VERY CLEARLY

Canada's new ambassador to the United States is a fast learner.

The "sheer magnitude" of the media in the United States makes it very difficult to get any share of public mind in this country, McKenna said.

"I see potential scandals which surface here every single day which flash across the television screen and disappear into the ether,'' he said. "In Canada (they) would have been enough to bring down the government.''

He cited a newspaper account of Homeland Security spending waste, a story which barely lasted a single news cycle.

"In Canada, that would have been the subject of a multi-year commission of inquiry and would have brought the government to its knees.''

"It was a one-hour story here."

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