O Canada
November 27, 2010 at 10:52 AM 4 comments
Canada is to get a conservative all-news TV channel after the CRTC on Friday granted Quebecor Media a license to launch Sun TV News nationwide.
The upstart cable channel, dubbed Fox News North by liberal critics, has the go-ahead to launch on January 1, 2011, with the moniker Hard News and Straight Talk.
“It (Sun TV News) will aim to challenge conventional wisdom and offer Canadians a new choice and a new voice on TV,” Quebecor Media CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau said as the conservative news channel faces stiff competition from existing cable news channels operated by the CBC and CTV networks.
The run-up to the licensing of Sun TV News spurred passionate debate about whether Canadians will embrace a news channel modelled on the successful Fox News Channel in the U.S.
“Hard news and straight talk?” What a joke. That’s just about as funny as “fair and balanced.”
Anyway, good luck Canada. Fox “News” has infused the U.S. with massive amounts of extreme right-wing propaganda, lies, fear and hate. It has done untold damage in the manipulation of our society. I guarantee it. Your country will not be better for this.
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jean-philippe | November 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM
I need to emigrate.
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Say It Ain't So Already | November 27, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Find a country where Murdoch doesn’t have a presence and I’ll go with you.
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US | January 13, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Liberals lies and bias is OK, but you want to outlaw news coverage that you dont agree with? How ignorant!
When will you start rounding up those who dare to be conservative?
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Mandy | January 13, 2012 at 3:34 PM
@US. The article says Quebecor Media has been granted license. Nobody is outlawing news coverage.
Btw, why do you say liberal lies are OK? to make it fair and balanced with Fox where lies and bias abound? Listen to yourself. Lies are not OK on the news.