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Bringing on the Fox News Canadian Bureau

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com

January 27, 2005

The only ones who loathe Fox News more than CNN founder Ted Turner does are the stuffed shirts at the state-controlled Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

While Turner's loathing of Fox may find its roots somewhere in dementia, CBC's loathing of Fox is based on nothing but fear. It's the kind of fear that comes from imagining the droves of Canadians likely to flock to Fox when it's fully available.

Even though Canadian taxpayers have paid CBC's freight to the tune of nearly a billion dollars, countless studies document that they don't watch the left-leaning network.

Marching for as long as anyone can remember to the same old socialist tune, the CBC is out of touch and out of synch.

Turner compared Fox News to Hitler during the week of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of auschwitz. Lying low in the reeds, CBC is getting ready to spring a stealth attack.

Frantically working on a Michael Moore-type documentary about the invasion of Canada by Fox News, CBC is sharpening the knives. Comically, Fox News is not even in direct competition with uptight CBC Television.

Fox News has something that the CBC doesn't: balance.

The last time CBC claimed to be in touch with its viewers was last November when it supposedly polled 140,000 public votes to find "The Greatest Canadian". a prime-time countdown was held on November 22, and the late former leader of the federal New Democrat Party was announced the winner.

Leave it to CBC to bypass Canada's military heroes and folk heroes like the one-legged Terry Fox who stole the hearts of Canadians when he hobbled past small-town Canada to bring public awareness to the cancer that ultimately claimed his young life.

In sanctimonious CBC follow-up lectures, viewers were told that socialist Douglas was "the greatest hero this country ever had."

While average Canadians are only now being able to tune in to Fox, it's always been available at Canadian Parliament. (al-Jazeera got here first!)

There's a discernible cronyism between CBC journalists and the Liberal Government. Current Governor-General adrienne Clarkson, who in 2003 led a $5-million "circumpolaring" trip to Russia, Iceland and Finland is a former CBC journalist. Clarkson took her former CBC boss along on the junket.

Thanks to my 12-year-old television going on the fritz, I acquired a new digital replacement. Only journalist colleagues can understand my joy at now being able to tune in to Fox any hour of the day. Having a digital is the only way Canadians in my neighbourhood can tune in on Fox News for the time being.

Neither CBC Television nor CBC Radio is allowed in the offices of Canada Free Press. There's a year-round bevy of journalism students there. CBC never gives the other side of the story and that's not the kind of journalism I want them to learn.

as far as Fox News is concerned, I happen to be in wholehearted agreement with Rachel Marsden. Marsden, a public relations affairs and communications strategist, columnist and talk show host, who has worked in politics and media on both sides of the border, gives Fox top rating.

"Fox News may lean conservative in terms of its editorial content, but its news programming is more balanced, interesting and unique than anything else in the media," Marsden says. "The hosts of the various current affairs programs are honest about where they stand ideologically, yet they don't let their politics get in the way of letting guests have their say. The audience is left to form its own opinion as a result of hearing both sides of an argument in a live, uncensored, unedited format. The same, unfortunately can't be said of the CBC, or of many other media outlets."

Victims in CBC's hatched job on Fox News, include Marsden, media bias critic Bernie Goldberg, right-wing pundit ann Coulter and representatives of the conservative Media Research Center, among others.

No doubt CBC, which casts Palestinian terrorists as freedom fighters and scandal-plagued Canadian Liberals as statesmen, will have a field day labeling the conservative victims interviewed.

But should Fox News want to include some Canadian content, it should have a field day. anything even remotely right of centre has been long ignored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Marsden, Goldberg, Coulter and company should do what the Canadian population at large does to CBC: ignore them.

When Fox News is up and running in the Land of the Maple Leaf, it is destined to become as powerful and popular as it has proven to be in the USa, and Fox is bound to set a new standard in the long deprived Canadian market.

Marsden says if you want to drive someone in the Canadian media to suicide watch, "Toss this one out there: Fox News Canadian Bureau."

Not Canada Free Press. We hope to be the Fox News Canadian Bureau.

So, if Fox News is looking for help with conservative Canadian content, they can always call on Canada Free Press.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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