I’m stealing this directly from Dan Gardner. It’s too perfect to leave on the Twitter floor.This video defines ‘blowhard’ – Mark Bonokoski in a jealous rage over the attention given to Jack Layton on his passing. These guys just can’t stand a lefty tak…
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Another blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets like to brag about how Fox News North (AKA Sun News Network) is ‘smoking‘ its news rivals, things aren’t looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel. This October, the network will lose its over the air free access; it will only be seen by those subscribers whose cable company . . . → Read More: Another blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
Continue readingAnother blow for Fox News North. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets brag about Fox News North’s ‘walloping’ of its news rivals on certain days, things aren’t looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel in future days. This October, the network will lose its free access; it will only be seen …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Theo Caldwell Is Not Dead
If anyone cares, Fox News North’s most recent castoff still gets the occasional gig on…wait for it… the Irish news broadcaster RTÉ News. Bit like being a star in Moncton, I suppose.
Continue readingMichael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.
Dawg posted a video tonight I wish I had never seen. No, not a clip from the latest slasher flick. Worse. Michael Coren, using the meme begun by disgraced ‘historian’ David Starkey that it’s ‘not racism, it’s culture’, went on a riot of his own on Fox News North with Brian Lilley gleefully cheering him on. His rampage . . . → Read More: Michael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.
Continue readingWho knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
Dan Gardner calls this an “indecently enjoyable read”. I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really is).
The summation (emphasis mine):
Oh, and remember the news about Conservative Transportation Minister Denis Lebel being a Bloc Québécois member? I asked the folks at the media monitoring service Infomart . . . → Read More: Who knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
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The pompadour of pretension
Dan Gardner calls this an “indecently enjoyable read”. I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really is).The summation (emphasis mine):Oh, and remember the news about…
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Quebecor Destaffing Newspapers To Keep Fox News North Afloat?
After the T.O. Sun’s last round of layoffs, I speculated wildly that the point of it all might be to keep Ezra in grease-paint. Turns out I might have been not so far off the mark:Another insider says the cuts were made to add funds to the …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Quebecor 2nd Qtr: Profits Sucked Less Than They Thought– But Sun TV Didn’t Help
Lots of stories out re Quebecor’s 2nd quarter results. Short version: their profits were down, but not as much as they could have been. Interesting to know how the pluses and minuses within the company were distributed, however: The media a…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Has the Ottawa Press Gallery Joined Big Bird’s Red Army?
The late Dalton Camp, former president of the now defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party, tells a story in his book: Whose Country is This Anyway, of a group of young conservatives who had disrupted a speech by Jean Charest.Charest at the time,…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Why Sun Media Quit The Ontario Press Council
Some speculation from John Miller (several weeks old, but not reported elsewhere as far as I know): Sun Media’s stated reasons for pulling out are as misleading and full of holes as some of its breezy tabloid news stories. I’m told the breaking point c…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sorry Ezra. He’s Not Just a Man in a Suit
While Ezra Levant and Sun Media “protest too much”, the links between the Harper government, the English Defense League and the international patriot movement, which includes the Tea Party Express, continue to mount.In the following Sun TV segment, Lev…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: There’s no danger of Murdoch style press scandals in Canada! Really! Got that? Now go back to sleep
Gotcha! Britain’s Private Eye magazine satirizes the Murdoch Fambly Saga across the Pond. Nothing like the Eye in Canada, more’s the pity! (Where is Michael Bate now that we need him?) Below: Rupert Murdoch, in happier times; Kory Teneycke, late of…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your long weekend.- I’ll agree with pogge that Tabatha Southey’s latest is well worth a read. But while it’s worth recognizing the differences between the respective priorities involved in managing a country as opposed to a f…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sorry Ezra. You Don’t Get Off That Easily
Given that Ezra Levant attacks Muslims at every opportunity, I was curious what he would have to say about the Norwegian disaster, and he didn’t disappoint.First off, he’s right to say that this was not a religious issue. Anders Breivik was not a Chri…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Rupert Murdoch Lied? It Can’t be True!
During his testimony to the British Parliament, Rupert Murdoch claimed not to know about the phone hacking.However, two former executives with News Corp disputed the claim, saying that Murdoch was warned several times that phone hacking at one of the c…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Ann Coulter is Not a "Free Speech Heroine". She’s an Idiot.
I must admit that I had never heard Ann Coulter speak, but have read many of the things she has written. Certainly no intellectual, but if I understand correctly, she is a comedian, akin to a shock jock.Bill Maher had her on as a guest this week and my…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells puts his observations about Stephen Harper’s inexplicable warnings about Canada’s eventual disappearance into column form. But I have to wonder whether Harper is really just taking the logical nex…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sun TV, Ezra Levant and Why the Danish Cartoons Matter
Ezra Levant, long time neocon insider and self-proclaimed stockaholic (one of 3 Stockwell Day fans), is among the bombastic characters on Fox News North (Sun TV).He used to run a small magazine (now out of business), where he published the infamous Dan…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Christopher Michael points out the real problem underlying the News of the World’s scandalous demise:The Sun is either clairvoyant at predicting the results of British elections, or instrumental in determining t…
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