England reported on the vice presidential election, as did America obviously, both touched on the same issues but it was written in two very different formats. Probably the biggest difference you could easily and immediately see was that BBC refers to the candidates as Mrs. Palin and Mr. Biden. while CNN calls them sen. Biden and Gov. Palin.
The BBC, reporting from a different country, was extremely unbias. Reporting only the facts in a strait forward way. While CNN did its best to remain unbias, it is so deeply rooted in these issues, the candidates, that there was the slightest (even that's kind) lean in one direction when they wrote.
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I'm wondering if the use of 'mr.' and 'mrs.' as opposed to other formalities in England has gotten to the point where we now see that kind of 'quaintness' as a cartoon. What I mean by this is something like when you here Americans doing British accents and say things like 'crumpets' and 'trousers.' It's almost like you absolutely have to say 'Mr.' and 'Mrs.' in order to elevated it (or bring it down) to that level of 'caricature' recognizability. Like Mr. Bean. Where, you can even take it up a notch by adding a suit to him! I'm curious, given all the satire that has surrounded this presidential election, if terms like Gov. or Sen. are become more humorous here in the States and whether or not their is a certain 'Cartoon' image of what Americans speak like held by the Brits. It'd be interesting to find out.
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