Second of all, I'm always open to reasoned debate--otherwise I wouldn't be here. Sun News isn't for people who like to think, it's for people who want to be told what to think.
All news "tells people what to think" in that they are all presenting factual information from a perspective. Long gone are the days when the news was presently in a dry, factual tone with little to no embellishment. Every breaking news story now has a theme song and graphic title sequence, irrespective of which channel you watch your news on. To lay that kind of label solely upon Sun News is no different than those that lay it upon CNN or CBC or Fox, it is bias, pure and simple.
That there are people who choose not to see beyond the rhetoric that any news channel is reporting, that's their problem. Frankly I've given up on televised news altogether and form my opinions based on written news from multiple sources and only after actually giving it some thought.
I'm not on the board of directors of Quebecor and thus I can't give you a definitive answer, but let's use our brains for just one moment, please. Quebecor owns Vidéotron, a majority Francophone cable provider. Sun News is an English-language news network.
Am I the only one connecting the dots? Have I gone mad?
Opinions expressed,
in my opinion, based upon the political perspective of any news agency, whether real or perceived, has little or nothing to do with actually thinking. It is, I believe, a reflection that it is political discourse itself that has gone mad. A very small portion of people with loud and often times obnoxious voices, who commandeer all political discussion and assign each and every issue based on whether it fits into a very small, strictly defined box and who get very, very agitated when you question them.
