With news that 'someone' is leaving their current job for Fox News North, I decided to do a quick search of the net to see what this new network would try to counter. Bloggers on the right elate in posting about CBC bias... but if you have to use the word 'bias' in your argument, you don't have an actual argument. Conservatives don't like the CBC because it isn't conservative. Sort of like they don't like people of colour because they aren't white, they don't like gays because they aren't straight etc.
From the political side of things I actually think this will be a HUGE boost to the Liberals. If we have the ability to point to the imbeciles that support the CPC every day and what their beliefs are, then we're gonna be winning some votes back.
On the social side of things is where this concerns me. My hope, honest to goodness hope, is that Canadians are too smart for this type of a network and for those that are dumb enough to watch and pay for it, I hope their numbers are so low that the network can't sustain itself. I can easily see this being as wildly popular as the Fox News 'answer' to the Daily Show, "the half-hour news hour."
But one look at the network that 'they' are trying to emulate leads to all kinds of questions. Is America 'better' because of Fox News? No. Has journalism improved since it hit the airwaves? No. Has their quality and accuracy of their reporting been repeatedly and routinely found to be lacking or inaccurate? Yes.
And if these are the answers, why do conservatives, big and small C, want this brought to Canada in any format? If it's about 'values' than one quick look at Fox News discussing whether Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite shows that values and Fox News are contradictory ideas.
If the ideas of conservatives stood on merit, than a Fox News of the North wouldn't be necessary. One thing their vaunted 'free market' does is test ideas. And time after time the ideas of Fox News have been found to be two things in the US: inaccurate and popular with the ignorant.
I don't view any conservative news station as a threat to the Liberal Party, but I do believe it weakens and worsens Canada as a country.
"any conservative news station. . . weakens and worsens Canada as a country."
ReplyDeleteOne of the most ridiculous statements I have ever heard.
You Liberals have never been in favour of a free and unfettered marketplace. The new network is being set up with private money. It will live or die on its own. All your bellyaching about it just shows how scared you are.
"Conservatives don't like the CBC because it isn't conservative."
Probably the only thing in this post worth reading.
It would seem to me that you don't like a challenge to the media landscape in the country because it suits your partisan desires perfectly well in its current configuration.
Your slip is showing.
glad you liked the post, and about the reaction I was expecting. A total lack of counter analysis. As I said in the opening paragraph, claiming something has bias is the weakest argument anyone can make. Citing examples of 'inaccuracy or error' is an argument/proof.
ReplyDeleteI am all for a free marketplace, but by the same token that I don't think "jersey shore" improves society or constitutes good TV, I don't think an overtly partisan media format is a positive contribution, either.
But as I said, every time conservative knit wits get on and open their mouths, 65 percent of the country will shake their heads in dismay. And likely another 10 percent will start to think "Do I really want to be associated with these people?"
Interesting theory. The believers of alarmists of Global warming are demanding skeptics prove them wrong.
ReplyDeleteI need to prove a bias exist in the Liberal or lazy media?
Let's try this prove AGW, release the data. Let's have the CBC cooperate with freedom of information prove a bias does not exist and than we can review on that basis.