Plans for ‘Fox News North’ to be revealed in Toronto

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[URL]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/823283--plans-for-fox-news-north-to-be-unveiled-tuesday[/URL]

[quote=Toronto Star]
OTTAWA—The details of a plan to launch a conservative television network will finally be revealed after much talk about what it could mean for political journalism in this country.
Pierre Karl Péladeau, the billionaire media tycoon who heads Quebecor Inc. and its subsidiaries, is expected to unveil his plans Tuesday for what the competition has already dubbed ‘Fox News North’, an English-language 24-hour all-news network modelled after the provocative ratings success below the border.
The press release for the announcement at the Toronto Sun building in Toronto Tuesday refers only to a “new investment in Canadian media,” but details of the reportedly $100 million venture by Quebecor Media Inc. and Sun Media Corporation have been leaking out in dribs and drabs for the past week.
Quebecor Media Inc. filed an application for a “must-carry” licence with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission earlier this month and the company has already announced some high-profile new hires, including Kory Teneycke, the former chief spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as vice-president of development.
Teneycke had been working on contract for Quebecor for several months after leaving his PMO job last July, simultaneously appearing as a conservative pundit on CBC television, where he went after EKOS pollster Frank Graves by accusing him of Liberal partisan bias.
Luc Lavoie, a former spokesman for Brian Mulroney, will be helping out.
There is plenty of speculation about who else might be poached away from their current posts, including controversial CBC television reporter Krista Erickson.
Teneycke has long talked about a television network that would cater to a conservative-minded audience, and has already come out swinging against naysayers in the established media.
When retired CBC personality Don Newman wrote a blog post calling the proposed network “the absolute last thing this country needs,” Teneycke shot back through his Twitter account by calling Newman “Canada’s answer to Helen Thomas”, the 89-year-old White House correspondent who recently resigned in the wake of controversial remarks about Israel.
Teneycke defended that online barb — and his vision for the “hard news and straight talk” network — in an interview Monday.
“It’s not surprising that incumbent players — competitors — are not that interested in seeing more people on the playing field and for those who think the media is only for . . . people they agree with,” Teneycke said. “I think they’re wrong. It is for a whole diversity of voices and the public is free to make up their own minds what they read and what they watch on TV.”
Jonathan Malloy, an associate professor of political science at Carleton University, said he is less concerned about the network giving voice to right-wing views (which he believes would create healthy competition) than the idea that it would adopt the polarizing tone Fox News has brought to political journalism.
“The Fox network is not a good model to replicate,” Malloy said Monday. “The Fox network is remarkably biased, I think, by any standard and helped make American politics even more combative and even less substantive than before and I don’t want to see that model replicated in Canada.”
The company also brought in David Akin, most recently a political reporter for Canwest News Service, to be Ottawa bureau chief and Brian Lilley from private broadcasting giant Astral Media Radio, is also officially on board.
Erickson, who has raised eyebrows for being the girlfriend of Conservative MP Lee Richardson (Calgary Centre) and got into trouble for feeding questions to a Liberal MP during committee hearings into the business relationship between Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber, is also rumoured to be joining the network.
Erickson sent an email to her colleagues at CBC on Monday morning to announce her departure but declined to comment on her future and referred all questions to her Toronto-based lawyer, Chris Taylor.
“At this point we are not commenting on where Krista will land but should have an announcement in that regard shortly,” Taylor wrote in an email.[/quote]
[IMG]http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/wordp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/krista_erickson.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/80/02/91be70a84128ab501d70736b52aa.jpeg[/IMG]ohmy

[Tunak Mk. II]

Now we can show those godless commies what real journalism is!

[paramud]

Yeah those democrats are hosers eh

You hear about how that Obama guy in the U.S. of Eh doesn't like hockey? What's that aboot, eh?

[DualReaver]

Shit, I was so upset after reading the title of this thread I dropped my bag of milk.

[Last or First]

Dear god, it's spreading.

Like a plague.

[SigmaLambda]

haha your guys' public debate and discourse is going screwed just like ours has

[Zeke129]

This is literally going to destroy politics in our country

Let's hope the CRTC doesn't pass that thing that lets media outlets lie

[AtomicWaffle]

Actually the majority of Torontonians will probably reach the consensus that they're a bunch of loons. We're not exactly a right wing city.

[sp]see: pot march, pride parades, etc.[/sp]

[SigmaLambda]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28291310]This is literally going to destroy politics in our country

Let's hope the CRTC doesn't pass that thing that lets media outlets lie[/QUOTE]

let's see you be all smugly detached in fox news threads now :smug:

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;28291320]Actually the majority of Torontonians will probably reach the consensus that they're a bunch of loons. We're not exactly a right wing city.

[sp]see: pot march, pride parades, etc.[/sp][/QUOTE]

Do you have any idea how much sway Alberta has in politics?

Well it's diminishing since the province is hemorrhaging jobs but it's still a giant conservative outpost.

[editline]25th February 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;28291341]let's see you be all smugly detached in fox news threads now :smug:[/QUOTE]

I will probably have shot myself already if this turns out to be anything like Fox News anyway

[paramud]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28291310]This is literally going to destroy politics in our country[/QUOTE]

Imagining your posts in a Canadian accent has made them inconceivably more hilarious for me.

[Killy_Mcgee]

Hey, Loons can't interbreed with loons!

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Paramud;28291376]Imagining your posts in a Canadian accent has made them inconceivably more hilarious for me.[/QUOTE]

Aboot
Eh
Poutine
Toque

That'll be $10

[Atokniro]

Thankfully they don't have the balls to go overseas

I hope

[paramud]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28291420]That'll be $10[/QUOTE]

I don't know how much that is in Canadian money.

[GhostSonic]

[QUOTE=Paramud;28291376]Imagining your posts in a Canadian accent has made them inconceivably more hilarious for me.[/QUOTE]

I haven't even heard very many Canadians with an accent.

[SigmaLambda]

I guess there's always New Zealand

[Ricaaado]

Fuck that shit, we don't need our filth spreading to our non-fear-inducing neighbor.

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Paramud;28291450]I don't know how much that is in Canadian money.[/QUOTE]

$10.22 american

[Tunak Mk. II]

[QUOTE=Paramud;28291450]I don't know how much that is in Canadian money.[/QUOTE]

Buy a Monopoly board and grab all the money from it. Should be about the right amount.

[Missing User]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28291420]Aboot
Eh
Poutine
Toque

That'll be $10[/QUOTE]

canadian punctuation 101

[Cl0cK]

This would suck so much, I don't fucking want Fox News in my country.

Although as long as we don't get a Fox News in Québec in the future.

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=GhostSonic;28291515]I haven't even heard very many Canadians with an accent.[/QUOTE]

My friend from Toronto sounds pretty much the same as anyone down here in Pennsylvania.

[editline]26th February 2011[/editline]

Shit I hope Canadians are immune to Fox News.

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Cl0cK;28291808]This would suck so much, I don't fucking want Fox News in my country.

Although as long as we don't get a Fox News in Québec in the future.[/QUOTE]

Quebecor Media Inc. is the one doing this so

surprise!

[HumanAbyss]

for fucks sakes. This is going to be stupid. Now we`re going to have people stupider than fucking glaber.

[Moose]

[img]http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/wordp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/krista_erickson.jpg[/img]

i would happily fuck this woman

[kevinseven]

NOWHERE IS SAFE!

/caps

[Cl0cK]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;28291920]Quebecor Media Inc. is the one doing this so

surprise![/QUOTE]
No!!!

I can't let that happen!

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Moose;28292037][img_thumb]http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/wordp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/krista_erickson.jpg[/img_thumb]

i would happily fuck this woman[/QUOTE]

Please do, then she'll suffer from a major depressive episode and not be able to do the news

[JLea]

yeah what's the deal with conservatives always having attractive women as their hosts