Peter Worthington writes in the Toronto Sun:"Leave it to the Toronto Star to cast the first stone at the idea of Quebecor Media Inc. bidding for a broadcast license for a TV channel centred on “conservative” news and opinion. “A Canadian Fox News knock-off,” is how Christopher Dornan called it in a Sunday Star article. “Enough to give not-so-worked-up citizens the willies."
Dornan despises Fox News which he says “has the none-too-bright persona of the schoolyard bully.” He says Fox tolerates contrary political viewpoints “not so they can be debated but so that they can be debased: brayed at, mocked, vilified.” To Dornan, “mean-spirited and vindictiveness” distinguish Fox News which, one infers, is what he suspects is in line for Canada if the Quebecor bid is accepted.
"Frankly, I doubt if Mr. Dornan watches Fox News. . . .If one wants opposing views in news commentary, it strikes me that Fox is the only channel that specializes in such opinions, most of them reasonable, if you discount Glenn Beck, who I, for one, find insufferable and would cheerfully strangle (just kidding).
"I haven’t a clue what Kory Teneycke, (misspelled in Dornan’s Star article as Keneycke) has in mind for the new channel he is said to head. But if it matches the versatility, enlightenment and independent alternative view that Fox does, it’ll find a receptive audience in Canada, inundated as we are with lib-left orthodoxy. . . ."
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