Far be it from me to predict the future, but last week when Kory Teneycke announced his departure from the leadership of the Sun TV News network, I predicted "I will be interested to see who is chosen as his replacement, and I fully expect he or she to be vilified by Don Newman". Cue to the next week and who wrote a new column at the CBC scathing Kory's replacement? Yes, none other than Don Newman. Don, you have become too predictable in your declining years, as Mr. Ignatieff might say. Everyone, back up, gasp, and suspend your disbelief because the new boss of Sun TB used to work for, gasp, Brian Mulroney. Stop the presses, hold the phones! Mulroney? Did he have something to do with Karlheinze Schreiber? Gasp, maybe!
And so, Don Newman continues his crusade against a new news network in Canada where he even has the audacity to say: "Sun TV is no threat to either of the news channels operated by the CBC and CTV". Really? I would really like Don Newman to elaborate on that one. Is there no threat of competition because cable subscribers are forced to buy the "other" news channels? Will they not be competing for viewers? Or do you even need to compete for viewers when they are all forced to buy your product whether they watch you or not?
I hope SUNTV gets going before all these bitter old lefties kick the bucket. I want them to see it all unravel before they go. A little goodbye present for all the harm they have done.
ReplyDeleteWell Newman's CBC attracts less than 3% of the Cdn population,
ReplyDeleteand he is part of the reason why!
'The galling self-importance of our leaders
If small government conservatism is so anathema to Canada, why is Rob Ford nearing 50% support?
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Patel said only 5% of Canadians want their news from such a channel. We have no idea how many will want it once it is on the air. That will obviously depend on the quality of the programming.
CBC’s The National is a news broadcast with which Canadians are very familiar and often less than a million people are watching it — that’s less than 3% — so would Patel say the CBC is a news channel Canadians don’t want?...'
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/2010/09/20/15416436.html
We need to petition the CRTC to cancel all must carry rules for cbc and ctv if they wont give SunTV a license. Use Patel's arguments for it.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when the cbc national was a news program, just the news. Now it is Manbridge opinion show.
There are millions of cdns who have never seen a real cbc national show. It has taken us a long time to realize it is not what it used to be.
Remember Lorne Green giving the news.
Might be fun to re-watch some of those real newscasts.
CBC NATIONAL= LIBERAL NATIONAL.
ReplyDeleteNews on the liberal party is being prorogued by CBC, CTV, GLOBAL National
News on the liberal party MESS and corruption is being prorogued by CBC, CTV, GLOBAL National.
ReplyDeleteCBC CTV ETC have 'purposely' ignored the works of the PM in Canada and abroad.
I would love to see the CRTC say that we are to pay for two cable news channels and that we can pick which two of the three we want. That would be a level playing field. It would also signal then end of CBC Newsworld since most Canadians would pick SUN TV and CTV.
ReplyDeleteThere is an old saying among Christians, the devil thinks he is god/good. (real conservative)
ReplyDeleteLets not forget that Don Newman is a BIG "L" liberal. He loathes anyone with a conservative stripe. If he (as a newsman) had been doing his job during the ADSCAM years the liberals would have been decimated years ago. However, it seems he conveniently overlooked it.
ReplyDeleteSomeday the CBC will be dismantled. That is the one and only item I cannot forgive Mulroney for. He had 2 majorities yet did not go after them and privatize them, he paid for it in the end.