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    Default Sun Media's Hypocrisy.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...rticle7597155/



    Canada’s newest and most controversial news channel is pinning its hopes for survival on a ruling by Canada’s broadcast regulator.

    Sun News Network is arguing its signal must be broadcast into every Canadian home if it is ever going to recover from losses that have already reached $17-million a year.

    The news network, which is owned by Quebecor Inc. and has made a name for itself by slamming rivals such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for relying on government subsidies, has asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant it “mandatory carriage,” which means it would be included in every basic cable package across the country.

    ...which is especially HYPOCRITICAL of them considering in 2010 they said this:


    http://www.torontosun.com/comment/ed.../15708051.html

    Sun TV News -- vilified by a small but hysterical group of very loud and arguably self-important critics -- will never ask for a single dollar from the pocket of the Canadian taxpayer, and never had the intention or even the wish to do so.

    To Sun TV News, it is all about freedom of choice.

    If you want it, and are willing to pay the subscription price, we want you to be able to have it.

    If not, then no worries.


    And just in case you don't tolerate this hypocrisy:
    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/848/4...tory-coverage/
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    I haven't had cable for several years now, so I don't watch their TV News. I did used to skim through the online articles in the Calgary sun when it was free to do so. However they have now made a subscription required to even read the majority of online articles. So now I will not be patronizing the Sun at all. I can understand the need for them to make money. However it would seem to me they should have maximized their online advertising revenue instead of forcing subscriptions. There are plenty free online news sources available, most of which are better than the sun anyways.
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    Fuck the sun, garbage news anyway

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    Can't wait for them to tank, Canada doesn't want faux news
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    Petition signed - no forced carriage for that garbage.
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    Signed the petition. 1/4 of the way to their goal of 5k signatures. I hope everybody posts this on Facebook to garnish as much attention as possible. With the Herald just about closing its doors, Calgarians have little choice for newspapers, so they turn to the Sun. You can just about feel the collective IQ of Calgary dropping when that happened.
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    Now, I'm not saying that they are (or are not) hypocrites, but seriously, Canada could stand some non-leftwing biased media. Watching the news is god awful.

    Also, in other news:

    "Earlier this month, the watchdog said Global Television must apologize to its viewers for not warning them about the bloody, drawn-out death of Bugs Bunny at the hands of Elmer Fudd during an episode of Family Guy. It wasn’t the violence that bothered the regulator, but the lack of warning."

    WHAT? SERIOUSLY? It's FAMILY GUY for god's sake. People actually complain about this shit? (this was a year ago, but whatever).

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    Although I almost never read the Sun and have never seen their TV news I think it's important to have as many different sources of news as possible available to the public.

    There's an issue with media monopoly in Taiwan right now and that's something we don't want to see.

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    No difference to me. I get my news from the antennae on my tinfoil hat.
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    News is better online.

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    Originally posted by ZenOps
    No difference to me. I get my news from the antennae on my tinfoil hat.
    You should invest in a nickel foil hat, much better reception.

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    AS far biased the Sun is on the right it is equal to the far left bias of the CBC. Get rid of them both!
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    Originally posted by PremiumRSX
    Although I almost never read the Sun and have never seen their TV news I think it's important to have as many different sources of news as possible available to the public.

    There's an issue with media monopoly in Taiwan right now and that's something we don't want to see.
    Why would Canadians want a Fox-news equivalent? You can't watch that and say it'll do good. As bad as a rap Canadian media gets, they do a decent job. Just cause its not as extreme sounding like the US news channels doesn't mean they are all lefties.

    Last thing Canada should want is to turn into the US.

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    Originally posted by Disoblige
    I'll just put this here:

    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1633208731001
    was that dude having a stroke during that video or something? it looked like a high school social studies project made by some teen that just read atlas shrugged

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    The sun is garbage. Using the argument that we should have varied news sources is irrelevant when the sun has illustrated itself, and is known not to be a credible source of news. I may be overstepping somewhat, but it is equivalent to the yellow press.

    Having multiple news sources of ideological leanings is fine, expecting the taxpayer to pay for garbage like the sun is not, especially when it contradicts a the ideology of the sun. Those idiots at the sun can't even stay loyal or consistent with their own viewpoints, fuck them.
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    The Sun has a TV show?
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