James Adams exhibits “fair and balanced” reporting at the Globe and Mail.
Fox News, the Canada-baiting house organ of the U.S. right, will come to Canadian digital television next year, the federal broadcast regulator is expected to rule today.
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News Corp. is controlled by the right-wing Australian media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch.
It claims to have more than 80 million subscribers in the United States alone, subscribers who have made it that country’s top- rated all-news channel and its commentators Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren and Bill O’Reilly full-fledged media personalities.
The abrasive Mr. O’Reilly, in particular, has developed an intense, albeit negative, interest in things Canadian in the past two years.
He used his much-watched The O’Reilly Factor program as a launching pad for feuds with The Globe and Mail’s John Doyle and Heather Mallick, and attacked, variously, Canadian teens (for being “ignorant”), the CRTC (for “banning” Fox), former prime minister Jean Chr�tien (for being “a bum”), The Globe and Mail (“a far-left newspaper”), Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell (for being soft on heroin users) and Canadian health care (“socialist”).
Woohooo! With endorsements like that, I think Fox can look forward to a healthy relationship with the unserved Canadian conservative news audience.
Well its approved now, so the G&M can suck eggs. Make that the CBC also.
Excellent.
Hopefully they can have a Only Canadian Hour worked into the fox local programming.
Heh. Andrew Coyne, Colby Cosh, Mark Steyn, and Eliza Nickson can do a spot each, once a week.
hahahhaah
I’d pay for cable just for that.
I actually find it stunning that the Canadian government would try to keep out a news channel on cable television–not broadcast, but cable/satellite fer chrissakes–simply because they don’t like the political ideology.
Why do I expect Fox News to be wildly popular up there?
“… He used his much-watched The O’Reilly Factor program as a launching pad for feuds with The Globe and Mail’s John Doyle and Heather Mallick, and attacked, variously,
Yup, Canada is ready to hear this guy, and not a moment too soon. James Adams, the Globe and Mail and CTV, frankly, I could use a little less of.
Hopefully they’re not censoring the internet, if you want to get a little taste go here:
http://www.foxnews.com/
Good luck up there in the Great White North.
The Guys will love the Fox babes, and it actually is alot more fair and balanced than broadcast news (does tilt alittle to the right, though)
I like “Fox and Friends” in the morning, “O’reilley”, and “Gretta” sometimes. Not too fond of the discussions on “Hannity and Colms”.
Also Fox comes with basic cable down here- guess that qualifies as subscription.