> I spent a week in Canada doing some fishing, in Peterborough, 100 miles outside Toronto. The big story on the local news for THREE DAYS was that they found a can at a gas station and thought it could very well might be a bomb. It wasn't. And every day the lead story was a car wreck.

This sounds like "regional news". Many years ago I remember a front-page headline (for the "Chipping-Sodbury Echo", or something like that) that read "Park bench repainted at last". Of course with local papers like that, "World War III declared" would merit 2 column inches on page 9.

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