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The Globe and MailUnbeknownst to most of us, the Sun News Network keeps chugging along. Thinking back, what a farcical fuss there was about the creation and launch of the ostentatiously right-wing news channel.
It turns out there are prime-time hours when about 7,000 viewers are watching the fearless Sun News crew fight to get the much-neglected right-of-centre viewpoint in front of Canadians. About seven million are watching the hockey, just to put the numbers in perspective. Seven thousand. Seven million. Think about it. When I say “unbeknownst,” I do actually mean unbeknownst.
... Right now, Sun News is campaigning against arts funding. Taxpayer money going to artsy-fartsy stuff. The scandal of it all. Sun News is finger-wagging, fussing about somebody who does stuff you don’t understand getting an arts grant. Of course, the problem with things you don’t understand is that it makes you think of other things you don’t understand. Like the inexplicable but undeniable fact that Quebecor, corporate owner of the Sun News, got a lot of money in grants from the federal government’s Publications Assistance Program to put out magazines featuring celebrity news and paid ads for things you don’t need. But that’s another joke.
... (Krista) Erickson is a laugh-a-minute sight to behold on Sun News. When she refers to CBC she calls it “the state broadcaster” and if she needs to refer to the Toronto Star or The Globe and Mail, she refuses to name a newspaper that isn’t a Sun paper. Instead she says, “a competing newspaper which shall remain nameless.” This is comically paranoid when spoken. It’s the speaking style of people who wear tinfoil on their heads to block the radio signals from the aliens.
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