We have Al-Jazeera available here, so I really don't see what the problem is.
Yeah... if they're going to let in Al-Jazeera, they might as well let in something like Fox and complete the party.
Heck, it might actually contribute something... I mean, crumb, during the G8/G20 Al-Jazeera was the only one doing accurate reporting of the demonstrations. Everyone else - even CBC - just played a clip of a kid molotoving a cop-car in a loop, while Al Jazeera was the only one showing where the real mass of (peacfull) protesting was happening.
It amazes me that some people can get so worked up about a TV channel, if you don't like it don't watch it, Nuff said.
Yup.
I think what's got me puzzled is I'm trying to figure out what spin Fox could do that would make it unique and Fox-from-a-Canadian perspective.
I mean, if there was a market for a channel pumping out a steady stream of ultra-right bilge then CanWest or CTVglobamedia could crack a new channel in no time, but they haven't, any more than they've cracked a channel to spew forth a steady stream of uber-left plop.
So what could Fox add to the picture? Sell Canadians on "The American Way"? Ridiculous. What could they possibly tell us about TAW that we don't know already? Crumb, most Canadians know more about it than do a lot of Americans. I'm the one who was at a family get-together with relatives in the states who had to explain to them what the term "multinational corporation" means.
Are they going to feed us a steady stream of hype about why we should be ra-ra for the good ol' USA? Idiotic. They'd mostly be preaching to the choir. Most French-Canadians I know like the US better than English Canada, and as an English Canadian it's me who should be broadcasting to them to stop being paranoid and get it through their heads that not everybody hates them.
So how do you be "Fox" from a Canadian perspective? Tell us we should be advocates, or at least tolerant, of global Free Trade? Who are they going to tell that to? The natives up north who found minerals on their reserves who made partnership deals with China to build mines and pay royalties and hire as many natives as possible? The softwood sector wondering when the US is going to start building houses again? The cattlemen who got PO'd when they were blocked exporting to the US when one case of bovine encephalitis was found?
Hmm... actually... if they can be Fox from a "Canadian perspective" it could be entertaining...
- Fox-Canada could have been up north ranting about the US stopping Canadian beef exports to the US, while Fox-USA rants about the threats to the American cattle industry posed by the threat of one case of bovine encephalitis found up north.
- Fox-USA can hoist the banner of the republic form of government, insisting that all the world should convert to a system like theirs, while Fox-Canada can have a special regular Monarchy-gossip feature that tracks the latest actions of Canada's most conservative institution.
- Fox-USA can rant about how the north is in danger from Russians doing training maneuvers in old Tupolevs over the arctic while Fox-Canada can rant about the US not recognizing Canada's claim to the northern archipelago.
- All-in-all, it would be Fox-USA pushing for American global dominance, and Fox-Canada ranting about the American threat to Canadian sovereignty.
*sigh* :roll:
