I’ll also never forget the biased coverage of the Coalition of Idiots rallies:  Union-led rallies for the idiots took center stage.  All of the severely normal Canadians rallying for the other side didn’t get the same notice.

I love Fox News.  Entertaining and not afraid to say it like it is. I even listen to Hannity and Beck on the radio when I have the chance.  Beats namby-pambies like Bill Good. Fox news is the only station that challenges the Obama cult worship going on in the rest of the mainstream.  The only station that had a somewhat sympathetic viewpoint on Sarah Palin.  The rest just shredded her to pieces.

If you saw the CBC through our eyes and heard the reporting through our ears, you would understand.

Obviously you don’t.  But the point is it’s OK to have disagreements; I just wish our side would have more of a mainstream outlet.  All we have right now is a few great guys on talk radio. 

By “our side”, I’m  talking small “c” conservative.  Not  Conservative Party stuff.  Conservative values:  small gov’t, personal responsibility, lower taxes, get out of my life government; traditional commonsense values.  And yes, social conservative stuff (ooooh, the boogey man for lefties!!!)    That kind of stuff.  Fox presents that viewpoint; we don’t have that here.

There are only a few journos in this country who question the THEORY that is global warming.  The CBC accepts it as fact and loves to repeat Fat Al’s Inconvenient Truth as if it is gospel.  Hint:  it’s not!  But you’d certainly never know there was an alternative proof on that  from watching CBC now would you?

I remember a few years back, one of the presenters on Canada AM saying she was “proud that Canada now has gay marriage”.   In other words, she supported the Liberal Party and what they did.  Hers was  not a small c conservative viewpoint.  Would a CTV or CBC reporter ever state the opposite?  Not on your life.  Because it’s not pc and they don’t want to “offend” the easily offendable.

I want to hear more of the other side.  Our side.

So if you’re talking about which leader a newspaper and/or tv station is kind to, that’s one thing.  That can sway with what stupid thing so and so did last week.  But we don’t have many outlets who present small c conservative viewpoints.  And that’s a different thing than just a political party, my friend.

Anyways, it’s very late here on the West Coast, so good night!

In case anyone still has doubt that the media hates the Conservatives let me draw your attention to the major daily endorsements in the last election:

Endorsing the Conservatives:
The National Post
The Globe and Mail
The Winnipeg Free
The Ottawa Citizen
The Toronto Sun 
Calgary Sun
Winnipeg Sun
The Ottawa Sun
The Edmonton Sun
The Edmonton Journal
The Calgary Herald
The Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Province
The Kitchener-Waterloo Record
The Gazette 
Endorsing the Liberals
The Toronto Star

Now, the CBC which seems to be a bone of contention with Conservatives, which I stated previously has a panel of Conservatives on its At Issue segment. Its news reporting has been critical of Harper but it was also critical of Cretien, Martin, and Dione.  So I still don’t get how Conservatives can claim the media has an anti Conservative bias.

Surely one cannot claim that people such as Sean Hannity, Glenn (I can’t stop crying) Beck, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill O Lielly are what’s needed in this country.

Canada is already full of divisions anyway.  See the Coalition of Idiots and the divisions that abomination spawned…

The more info the public has, the better.  A conservative TV station would be a breath of fresh air for someone like me, who is sick sick sick of people like Jack Layton and Lizzie May getting air time for being darn close to irrelevant.

the other pete

Man Conservatives can sure be parnoid when it comes the media. Wasn’t the media all over the sponsorship scandal when it broke, which ultimately led to the Liberal loss in 2006. The media was critical of the coalition (which most Canadians could not understand as being fully legal and part of the Parliamentary system) which sought to topple Harper. They also were very critical of Stephane Dion which led to his demise as party leader. See, it goes both ways. Do you expect the media to have a love in with the Government of the Day? Overall Canwest has been more than fair to the Conservatives which given the Asper’s support of the Conservatives this is not suprising. Even Don Martin who Conservatives seem to think is out to get them gave Stephen Harper’s cabinet fairly good marks.

At the end of the day media such as Fox News does nothing but further divide people and Canada does not need such divisions as there are in the States. The best example of how both sides of a debate can be represented was Counterspin on CBC. It did so without the hot air and buffoonary of Fox.

Good point ! I think we might well fall into the trap of thinking of the media as being ” left wing ” when they are really anti-Conservative Party and even more anti Harper.

What we do see though is often is a blatant double standard where small stuff is blown all out of proportion when it can be pinned on a Conservative and big stuff ignored when it’s a Liberal ” goof or faux pas “.

I would just like the media to do real journalism and look deeper than superficial
” gotchas ” and ask intelligent questions of all Parties. Some of it might still hurt the Conservatives but it would not give the Liberals a free pass either on their spin .

However, I think KL is incorrect to label the Canadian media left-wing. I never said that. I just said most were anti-Conservative.

That is the KL’s trick you see. Few journalists, if any, would support the NDP as a government in waiting — the only real left-wing party besides the Bloc in Quebec. Greens are not even totally left wing as I understand it.

So, if that is the definition KL is using, he or she is right. But, equally, there is no right wing media either — which is really what this post is all about.

But, if we allow that most of the Canadian media are centrists, they are neither left or right. But, the majority are definitely pro-Liberal Party and anti-Conservative Party, no matter where they are on the political spectrum.

Meaning Jack — as you said – having a Fox equivalent in Canada would bring about a good balance given how “leaning from the centre to the left of centre” most media in Canada are.
 

What can I say? 

My site — you lose.