{"id":13021,"date":"2010-06-24T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2010-06-24T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T21:26:36","slug":"sun-news-tv-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/24\/sun-news-tv-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun TV News: What We Know (Updated with Further Detail)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What we know is not promising.<\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who lied about his business dealings with convicted influence-peddler Karlheinz Schrieber, who took $300,000 in cash from Schrieber without declaring it, and who then demanded 2.1 million tax-payer dollars in compensation for a slander now known not to be slander, is on the board of directors of the Sun News parent company, Quebecor.\u00a0 More recently, Mulroney has also improperly lobbied cabinet ministers on behalf of Quebecor.<\/p>\n

Pierre Peladeau, CEO of Quebecor, is an “ultra-conservative” whose Sun News division is in the doldrums and hasn’t turned a profit for some time.\u00a0 He is attempting to have the CRTC convert his money-losing Sun TV of Toronto into a Category 1 — or “must carry” — cable news station, which means that cable service providers across the country must make it available to subscribers and to pay for it even if they don’t want it and their subscribers don’t watch it<\/em>.\u00a0 In other words, Peladeau wants to turn his unprofitable news division into a cash cow by way of a right wing news channel for which there is no demonstrable demand and whose income is guaranteed<\/em> to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year from cable subscribers who may want nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

Stephen Harper is apparently in on the scheme.\u00a0 We know that he secretly met with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in March 2009 and that he subsequently met with Peladeau, who’s also had access to at least three other high ranking cabinet ministers.\u00a0 This fact alone is staggering in its implications.\u00a0 A sitting prime minister evidently using his position to facilitate the creation of a right wing news channel to serve as the propaganda arm of his government — and do so, moreover, at public expense.\u00a0 Are there even words to describe this?\u00a0 Perhaps one: Cheney-esque.<\/p>\n

Kory Teneycke, former communications director for Stephen Harper, is now vice president of development for Quebecor Media. Teneycke was also present at the March 2009 meeting of Harper with Murdoch and Ailes.\u00a0 This completes the circle.\u00a0 Teneycke is . . .\u00a0 Well, just consider these remarks on his Facebook page, as reported by Bruce Cheadle of the Canadian Press:<\/p>\n

He lauds Glenn Beck, Fox\u2019s anti-government conspiracy theorist, and makes note of a National Enquirer headline about \u201cObama Cheating Scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Enquirer has a remarkably strong track record on these stories of late\u2026 Tiger Woods and John Edwards. We shall see \u2026\u201d writes Teneycke.<\/p>\n

And his edgy, controversial humour shines through: \u201cTo the pot heads who keep sending me crazy, profane emails: I hope (imprisoned pot activist) Marc Emery enjoys group showers as much as he enjoys pot. Three cheers for the DEA.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00a0 “Lauds Glenn Beck,” promotes an “Obama Cheating Scandal” from the National Enquirer<\/em>, and — in a particularly crude and mean-spirited comment — says of Canadian Marc Emery<\/a>, now in U.S. custody, “I hope he enjoys group showers.”\u00a0 Geez, I wonder what that’s code for?\u00a0 This is a man with a lot of power and money and influence.\u00a0 This is how he talks about fellow citizens who have nothing like his advantages?\u00a0 Disgusting.\u00a0 (Note that Emery paid both provincial and federal taxes on his marijuana seed business totalling $600,000 <\/em>before the Harper government turned him over to the DEA in May.)<\/p>\n

Finally, Teneycke is now claiming that the association of Sun TV News with Fox News is just “critics throwing stones.”\u00a0 That’s a bald-faced lie.\u00a0 Teneycke himself has apparently been saying for years that Canada needs a Fox News, a sentiment that has been echoed up and down the line by other conservatives.\u00a0 Senior Sun News columnist Peter Worthington recently drew the same analogy between Sun TV News and Fox News.\u00a0 Sun TV News is to be Canada’s Fox News, and that’s evidently been the plan of all of these players all along.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already done so, take a look these two articles, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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