Intro to "The Hour"

"The Hour is a national current affairs show on CBC television hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos. It’s not a newscast. It’s not a magazine show. The Hour is a different take on the news through the lens of George and company. While news shows cover the issues of the day, The Hour dissects the issues within the issues. Always unconventional. Often controversial. Never predictable."

The show is a great example of "Mcdonalization" because of its entertaining delivery of news, the show delivers its stories in snippets with flashy graphics and multi media. The format is very quick, and the host speaks quickly through out the segments trying to get a lot of information to the viewer in a small frame of time. There for most news stories are mentioned but the issues are not delved into. George delieveres a quick over view of the top stories that are in the spot light for the day, adding his own style of news delivery with of sarcasim and a reminder of his own political view on the subject.