Here in Canada, the media claims to be fairly balanced. But when Quebecor Inc. decided to start their own news channel,

which will attempt to match Fox News' conservative views and popularity, I found they weren't quite so.


Left-wing view

Right-wing view

There are some ex-Conservative Party members involved and it seems to me they are trying to jump on the lefties while they are down

The only reason the Con's are in charge is because the Lib's f*ed it up with their crazy ass spending and they were the only alternative.

That's why I voted Con in the election they won. Since then, I've had no good reason to like them so I've been voting marijuana or green party

My questions are as follows.

Why is Fox News so popular in the U.S.? Are there right-wing news channels in YOUR country? Do they match FN's popularity?

And why? Is it good to have just to have the devil's advocate?

Finally, being a small c conservative, will i like this? I don't get FN, and the clips i've seen on that Beck dude are laughable.

I find the whole situation to be a scam of the proffession. Let me make meself clear.

These days, as in this topic, we talk about left wing views and right wing views ect, and in itself it isnt that big an issue becasue ppl do have opinions. The problem starts when the media feels they have a right to an opinion. They dont, thats the clear fact of the matter. The press is supposed to be neutral, give the facts, lets both parties make their statement and be done with it and let the people be the judge on wich opinion to follow. This simply doesnt happen anymore, the press now is a parrot in a cage that only repeats the statements of ppl they concider to be presenting the right opinion. And that 'right' opinion is the in fact the opinion of the owner of the station/newspaper/raidio.
I think its high time that the people start taking notice of this. How can a political rally for example be aout different things if you watch Fox then if you watch CNN for example? Its plain redicoulous. Casting your own opinion while being employed in the press is a pure rape of the essence of the proffession. The only exceptions to the rule are the collumnists in my opinion, but a colemnist isnt perse a journalist neither so he's kind of excused in the matter when he gives an opinion.

So is this new station a good thing? No, its not.


Im gonne give a small example too : in the time the USSR still existed the western people laughed at the soviet press for bringing the news the way they saw it, all from a communist point of view. Nobody EVER took the soviet press serious. All of that seems to be forgotten now, Fox for example does EXACTLY the same thing, only difference is that the views portraid are different.

Well said. I often refer to the news (any of them) here in the states as "The Opinion", and have often refrenced that they chould change their name as such. It is deplorable to me that we are at war in two countries, yet you can watch an entire so called news broadcast and not hear a mention of either one. The fact is that the "news" is anymore nothing more than a soapbox for the corporation that owns them to preach from. Most news channels seem very much persuaded to the "opinion", but I doubt that you will find a balance just because one comes along that swings more to the "Right". What is need is a good old fashioned no nonsense news that, as mentioned, gives us the facts and trusts us to be intelligent enough to form our own opinion. I don't know if we will ever get back there though. Money drives everything here, and the money comes from the networks, and the networks don't want their own stations broadcasting anything that could be viewed as damaging to them or the corporations that own them. By the very economics of the industry, the new is swayed to at the very least censor themselves as to what they present us with, and at it's worst preach the views of their ownership.

So in a nutshell, you can't have two evils, extreme left and right, balance out to a good. The only good can be a true balance.

Thanks for your input. I believe the media should be giving us news rather than opinion. But they are being swayed by the almighty dollar.
Their superiors will be more inclined to advance them or pay them more if they toe the company line. And if they are really outspoken, they might get their
own reality show, or talk show or date some celebrity etc.
So basically we're stuck with this crap.

Principles don't generate revenue, but populism & sensationalism does. Nowadays, companies are very willing to cross any boundary of decency or even law, to make that extra buck so journalism's principles just don't fit that corporate scheme anymore.

You've hit the nail on the head there ADL.