Sometimes the Globe manages to print some good stuff. Such is the case with Gerald Caplan and his darkly humorous column today on the Conservatives’ drive to own not just a portion of the media but all of it.
Public money, after all, brings all these swell folks to the CBC. If there’s any justice in this world, surely the O’Leary-Lang lollapalooza, together with Dragon’s Den and Don Cherry, belong as a matter of natural justice to the ethic and aesthetic of the Sun “News” Network. The intention is to create a joint prime-time program as the new network’s flagship show, tentatively being called The Puke Hour.
The new media semi-colossus is already being seen as a win-win for everyone who counts in Stephen Harper’s Canada – the Tory Base. This includes its new owner, Pierre Karl Péladeau, a hard-boiled Quebec media tycoon whose role model may be Rupert Murdoch.
