Leading Canadian TV columnist mocks Fox News. Haha!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

This is an article of one of Canada's foremost television columnnists in Canada's major national newspaper:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040419/DOYLE19

Doyle basically says what most of us have known all along. Fox is what amounts to a cartoon, not a news channel.

[rainy]

1. please forward this to Al Frankin at AA

He will love this and will probably read in on air.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

3. Go for it..

[billybob537]

2. I've been dying to use this

If you want to be taken seriously:
#1, don't associate with Heraldo Rivera.
#2, don't use convicted felons as character witnesses; Ollie North.
#3, don't have Newt Gingrich for moral support.
:dunce::crazy::puke:

[Sir Craig]

4. O'Really even mentioned this on his program

Too bad he's such an ignorant shit:

The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day

Time now for "The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day"...

A Canadian cable company, citing a growing demand for the FOX News Channel, had petitioned an application with their government to carry us. Now columnists on the far left "Toronto Globe & Mail" wrote: "Bring it on, we're all in a good need of a laugh. We'll find out if this Bill O'Reilly fellow is as stupendously pompous and preening as he appears to be in the rare clips we see of FOX News."

So they see rare clips, but think we're laughable. "The Globe & Mail" sounds like a real responsible enterprise, doesn't it? Hey, you pinheads up there, I may be pompous but at least I'm honest.

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O'Really wouldn't know honesty if it bit him on the ass...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117643,00.html

[SeveneightyWhoa]

6. Globe and Mail is "far left"?

What an outrageous lie. A slander. The Globe and Mail should sue this moron.

The Globe and Mail is centrist, at best. It is most likely right-of-center. The official editorial position is one of support for the Iraq war, for heaven's sake.

Obviously, any criticism of O'Reilly's Nazi-network is equivalent to being "far left". What a pathetic, disturbing jackass.

[starfiend15]

5. See...

This is way Canada kicks ass

[SeveneightyWhoa]

7. AHAHAHA, look at the next article of his..

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040421/DOYLE21/TPColumnists

Apparently, this article (and O'Reilly's mention of it) got freepers heads exploding. Crazy shit.

[blueseas]

8. Thanks for posting!

It is refreshing to see a journalist views on Faux News.

[Room101]

9. Email him support- The brown shirts are sending hate mail -

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[blueseas]

10. Thanks I will

I watch CBC so I will be happy to give him a saner view of the US and not the dribble of Pavlov's dogs.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. For those that didn't check out, let me share a few paragraphs.

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Spurred by O'Reilly's remarks, dozens of Fox News viewers wrote to me. Remember now that I only suggested that Fox News be available to us -- not only as a vital window on the United States, but as an outright tonic. Before the channel has even appeared, I can tell you I was in stitches reading the voluminous response from Fox News supporters in the U.S. By Monday evening, I was so paralytic with laughter I had to call off the writing of yesterday's column. I was incapacitated with the hilarity.

Me, I find it quite bracing to be so reviled and it's very encouraging to know that mere newspaper coverage of a TV news channel can make some people so very angry.

The people who support Fox News must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. This is an informed opinion. They'd give English soccer hooligans a run for their money.

I lost count of the number of times I was called "an a**hole." It was at least 43 times, anyway. I was called "a pussy," "a wussy," "a pr**k," "a jerk," "a hack" and "a creep." A man in Cleveland not only called me "an a**hole" but also wished me a "f***ed-up day." A lady -- and I use the term advisedly -- in Colorado wrote to say that all Canadians are "a**holes" and then ordered me not to visit her state. I was also called a Canadian numerous times, as if that were an automatic and withering insult.

(emphasis mine)

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So tell me,

How many of y'all are surprised by Fox "loyalists" display of intelligent and intellectual articulation?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

11. Just sent a letter to the Globe & Mail..

"I have to send out my congratulations to Globe columnist John Doyle. With his new-found feud with Bill O'Reilly, Doyle has reached the upper eschelon (the cultural "elite" if you will) of punditry--those that the egotistical O'Reilly has deliberately picked fights with in order to help ratings and inflate his ego. Doyle is now part an elite group that includes Al Franken, rapper Ludacris, commentator G. Gordon Liddy (whom O'Reilly, ironically, described as a "right-wing flamethrower), and the son of a 9/11 victim (whom O'Reilly heartlessly attacked for straying from the "No Spin Zone" spin points). Doyle, you're in great company. Slamming Republican propagandist Bill O'Reilly, and getting his childhood-level insults in return, is a victory for truth in media. Keep it up!"

Hopefully this one gets printed (I don't know if they'll be printing any more, as they just printed three letters based on this, just today).

[0rganism]

13. Meanwhile, Fox News dominates the American cable news market

You may think Fox News is a joke, but Murdoch and Ailes are laughing all the way to the bank.

Out-Foxed
How Rupert's red-state cable channel waved the flag and beat CNN.

By Geraldine Sealey


April 24, 2004 | Caution, you're about to enter a No Spin Zone. Or is it the Twilight Zone? We'll report, and you decide, based on this recent "unspun" news update from Fox News' flagship primetime program "The O'Reilly Factor."

...There was a time, not too long ago, when Fox News was a joke -- albeit a bad and sick one -- to liberals and TV journalists raised on Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley. But even those who rue the success of Rupert Murdoch's flag-waving cable channel have to admit: The old boy has done it. CNN founder Ted Turner once famously mocked Murdoch, saying he'd squish his cable news rival like a bug. We all know now who has squished whom.

Just check the Nielsens: When the president gave his prime-time press conference last week, 5.2 million viewers watched on Fox News, compared to CNN's 1.7 million and MSNBC's 867,000 viewers. For the year, Fox ranks ninth among all cable networks in primetime, averaging 1.4 million viewers. CNN and MSNBC don't even make the Top 20. In 20th place: The Home and Garden Network.

How the erstwhile journalistic laughingstock Fox News -- or "Faux News," as mocking bloggers know it -- managed to climb atop the cable news industry in the 1990s is the topic of Los Angeles Times television reporter Scott Collins' often entertaining book "Crazy Like a Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN." Collins traces Fox's scrappy success -- and the simultaneous tanking of rivals CNN and MSNBC -- through the colorful characters who have ruled the seamy journalistic underworld of cable news over the past decade while detailing the wheeling and dealing that made Fox's success possible...

more: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/04/24/fox/print.html