We Pay For Fox News
August 13th, 2008 Posted in Oddities
photo credit: Ben Werdmuller
In Vancouver you must pay extra to watch Fox New channel - despite it having more US viewers than all other cable news channels combined.
CNN is free - along with BBC and Al-Jazeera, making you wonder why the political bias is so pronounced.
Fox’s airing of right-wing viewpoints could be the problem… but even Venezuela carries the channel, so one needs to wonder if the CTRC is afraid of any viewpoint other than CBC’s.
It’s time to free information in Canada, and with Canada’s shift towards the center, Fox should be part of the same basic cable package as CNN. If anything, it woud raise the bar on news in Canada, and force the other news channels to raise the bar on their news.
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August 14th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I too am mad about this. CNN sucks as does CBC.
Canadian news needs to retire some of the anchors - they are deadly.
The left has hijacked our news and force feeds Canadians their view.
I am paying for Fox and it’s the only news we watch here in Vancouver
Keep up the great blogging..
August 27th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Hmmm… Fox is included in my basic package in Calgary and in basic packages in Ottawa.
I don’t get Al-Jazeera. I asked my friend in Ottawa what he gets, and his comments follow.
If you have a right-wing bias you want Fox News.
It is the most biased and twisted news agency out there. If anything CNBC
and CNN are centrist, not leftist.
And Al Jazerra is not free in Canadian cable packages.
In fact, with my ‘deluxe’ cable package I get Fox News but not Al Jazeera.
(so in fact I pay for fox news)
There you go. Whatever happened to non- biased political news reporting?
I am enjoying your interesting and varied blogs.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Calgary is special - most American of all Canadian Cities.. that explains why you can get Fox News..
Look through your line-up.. Al Jazeera is there..