Fox News says boycott Canada

[The Mad Monk]

You speak heresy against The Lord God Putin!?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
You speak heresy against The Lord God Putin!?

Hmm?
I didn't make that post. It must be the capitalist dogs next doorwho hacked into my account

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Frankychan

Ever actually listen to the reporters? In interviews, they use a LOT of leading questions.

Not like CNN, I guess.

[Frankychan]

Well....um......Ok ok, you got me there. CNN also uses leading questions, but they seem less biased than FauxNews.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In interviews, they use a LOT of leading questions.

I thought investigative journalism was supposed to make use of leading questions.

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
The real issue for Canadians in all this is that in the year 2004, there is still a federal-government agency, stacked with Liberal patronage appointees and bureaucrats, that actually has a mandate to try to determine what Canadians may or watch on television, or not.

This, of course, would never happen in the United States.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In the US, you can get a satellite and watch whatever the Hell you want without any government interference whatsoever (since you could watch foriegn broadcasts).

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, I'm not entirely sure you could characterize someone as a far right-winger, who while doing an interview with President Bush, told the President that he believes Jesus would be against the death penalty.

[Buck Birdseed]

As you can in just about any country of the world, except North Korea.

[Agathon]

Man from all those emails it looks like Fez exceeded his bandwith limit for the month.

Seriously, who calls the Globe far left? It is old time Tory. The National Post is neoconservative, and the Toronto Star is mildly liberal.

I'll bet that the Canadians who wrote in support of Fox are the looney ****ers who voted for the Alliance. There aren't that many of them, so who cares.

[Imran Siddiqui]

As you can in just about any country of the world, except North Korea.

From the letters posted, it seems that watching Fox News with a satellite isn't considered kosher.... though maybe the letter writer was mistaken.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Seriously, who calls the Globe far left? It is old time Tory. The National Post is neoconservative, and the Toronto Star is mildly liberal.

That amuses me, because O'Reilly used someone from the Toronto Star to attack the Liberal government. Not saying they don't hire conservatives, but it made me smile to see he was using someone from a liberal paper to attack the Globe and the Liberals.

[Nubclear]

And thats ultimately what Fox News is about - Entertaining you

[Agathon]

All the papers have columnists of varying views. Even the post which used to be exclusively right wing (now Buzz Hargrove, the leader of the Canadian Autworkers Union and a militant leftie writes for them).

I don't know what the CRTC law is but presumably CNN is doing something that Fox won't. Either that or Canadians are worried that Fox would destroy Newsworld - I can't see why though, Newsworld is infinitely better than CNN for starters.

The CBC is like almost all public broadcasters, it seems ridiculously left wing because all the commercial stations are so right wing. For example, the CBC tries to be impartial about Israel while the Canwest stations and CityTV are rabidly pro Israel.

You know what's weird? In NZ there are two main competing networks for terrestrial broadcasts (the publicly owned TVNZ and the privately owned TV3) and the news on both is the same middle of the road guff. I never really believed in media bias until I left NZ - we just don't care unless it's rugby or chucking off at those sheep rooters across the Tasman.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Btw, I'm not entirely sure you could characterize someone as a far right-winger, who while doing an interview with President Bush, told the President that he believes Jesus would be against the death penalty.

Btw, I'm not entirely sure you could characterize someone as a far right-winger, who is a strict vegetarian and a dog lover. You know who I mean.