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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 01:35 AM Feb 2015

Breaking drivel! Mud on its face, a big disgrace, Sun News Network perishes from the earth

Source: Alberta Politics

... Sun News was dedicated to the proposition that if only they could somehow build up sufficient numbers of listeners and viewers, they could create a Canadian equivalent to Fox News capable of deceiving Canadians into believing the neoliberal platitudes peddled by the likes of Stephen Harper, Preston Manning, Jim Prentice and their ilk.

In other words, to borrow the kind of language used regularly on the air by one of the network’s best known commentators, famous for his potty mouth, that p**p tastes like toothpaste.

... In a strange way, I’ll miss Sun News, which will officially pass from the Canadian broadcasting scene forever tomorrow, an extraordinarily lucky Friday the 13th. ... It is unseemly to gloat, and probably unwise. The loony rightwing network, which lately has had his hand out for subsidies and favours as its cadre of enraged meat puppets waxed nearly incoherent at the thought of such funds for anyone else, will almost certainly soon resurface in an only slightly subtler form.

... Certainly there was precious little profitable about the business now. The Globe and Mail reported tonight that with its ratings at rock bottom, Sun News lost $14.8-million in 2013 and $46.7-million over the past three years. Nevertheless, in its short life, Sun News Network can take credit for having permanently debased Canadian public discourse.

Read more: http://albertapolitics.ca/2015/02/breaking-drivel-mud-face-big-disgrace-sun-news-network-perishes-earth/

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Breaking drivel! Mud on its face, a big disgrace, Sun News Network perishes from the earth (Original Post) Newsjock Feb 2015 OP
And Canadians Cirque du So-What Feb 2015 #1
Good to hear Canada has vaccinated itself from mass stupidity. Rex Feb 2015 #2
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. Good to hear Canada has vaccinated itself from mass stupidity.
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 04:19 AM
Feb 2015

Foxnews is a virus. No country should have to suffer needlessly from pundits that could barely work for TV tabloid trash like Inside Edition.

Nobody should have to suffer the Baby Hannity in full whine mode.

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