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Tasha Kheiriddin: Fox News North a welcome addition to Canadian media jungle

By Tasha Kheiriddin  June 11, 2010 – 10:30 am

 

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Pierre Karl Peladeau

Oooh, the fearmongering has started.  Fox News North is coming!  Batten down your remotes!  If Liberal and NDP politicians are to be believed, Canadian airwaves are about to be flooded with right-wing propaganda, leaving hapless viewers at the mercy of pundits like Ezra Levant, who is rumoured to be courted to host a show on the new, as yet unnamed channel.
Funny, but when the decidedly left-wing Al Jazeera English (AJE) got regulatory approval last month for broadcast in Canada, nary a peep was heard from Parliament Hill, and its arrival was welcomed by media organizations such as Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.  (Ironically, their news release contained no mention of the lack of freedom of expression in Qatar, where AJE’s openly anti-Semitic parent network Al Jazeera Arabic is based).  But this reaction should not be too surprising.  Fairness seems to be a relative concept in Canadian broadcasting – what’s left is fair, and what’s right is fair game for suspicion. Read More »