Merged QMI/Sun Media TV News thread

[The Bread Guy]

My wife and I are going to a CPC fundraiser at the Ivy Lea Club on Sunday afternoon. Among others, Senator Duffy will be in attendance. If I get a chance, I intend to ask him if he will have his own show again.

Fixed that for you  ;D

 

[Edward Campbell]

The media are now reporting that QMI will make a public announcement tomorrow.

 

[ModlrMike]

I have to admit that the amount of hand wringing and apoplexy on the left makes this an idea worth pursuing.

 

[The Bread Guy]

.... Sun TV News is the label that has been given to Quebecor’s newest media project.

It’s a TV news channel that wants to “challenge the existing English Canadian TV news establishment,” according to Quebecor Media president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau.

“Far too many Canadians are tuning out completely or changing their dials to American all-news channels,” Péladeau said in a statement.

“They’re opting out or switching over. That’s not good for Canadian television. It’s not good for Canadian democracy. And it’s not good for Canada itself.


“Quebecor sees an untapped market opportunity in English Canadian TV news. We see an opportunity in offering Canadians something new, something better, something distinct.

“It is time to shake up the current players of the Canadian broadcasting system. It’s time for a new choice, a new voice.” 

(....)

In the United States cable-news game, Fox News tends to occupy the right and MSNBC tends to occupy the left, with both accusing the other of being too biased. Meanwhile, CNN exists somewhere in the middle, pronouncing itself as “balanced” while its rivals on the left and right accuse it of being “boring.”

In Canada there would seem to be an opportunity to fill a cable-news void on the right or centre-right.

“CBC News Network and CTV News Channel have had, respectively, 21 and 13 years to get it right and they’ve failed to win over viewers,” said Kory Teneycke, Quebecor VP of development, also in a statement.

“Canadian TV news today is narrow, complacent and politically correct.

“Sun TV News will be different from the all-news channel format we know all too well in Canada. It will offer Canadians an attractive mixture of ‘hard news’ reporting during the day and ‘straight talk’ opinion journalism at night.

“This will not be another network catering to elite opinion and ignoring stories important to many Canadians.”

More here (article), here (Sun TV News site) and here (how to help the proposed new network)

 

[Kat Stevens]

I have to disagree.  I have always felt they took "the sky is falling" approach to their reporting.  Too alarmist for me.

My 2 fils

Agreed, they seem to follow the pattern of US news broadcasts; "Tune in at eleven to see which 30 common items in your home will kill your kids".

 

[Rifleman62]

SUN TV will present the sunny side of

an attractive mixture of ‘hard news’ reporting during the day and ‘straight talk’ opinion journalism at night

which does not exist with the constant message from CBC and CTV of: it's all Harpers's and the Conservatives fault and Canada is a disaster.

 

[GAP]

Boy, the other outlets sure don't like the idea of Sun News....must be hitting home.... :

Full Pundit: The evil right-wing television network has a name
Article Link

Say hello to Sun News
Thoughts on Canada’s new “home for hard news and straight talk.”

Sun Media’s Peter Worthington thinks Fox News, unlike “CNN or MSNBC or even the CBC, all of which give a slanted and selective view of [the] news of the day,” “has earned the title ‘Fair and Balanced.’ ” It is, he says, just the place to find “opposing views in news commentary” — indeed, it’s “the only channel that specializes in such opinions, most of them reasonable,” and while claiming no inside information, he hopes the new TV network being planned by his Quebecor overlords “matches the versatility, enlightenment and independent alternative view” available on Fox News.

John Moore, in the National Post, thinks … well, let’s just say the exact opposite of all that.

We don’t watch Fox News, so we couldn’t really tell you either way. But they sure can’t both be right!

Having recently attended “the annual gala liberal-group frottage staged … by the Canadian Journalism Foundation,” Terence Corcoran, also writing in the Post, is willing to get behind any venture that might break the stranglehold of the “Atkinson-Star Toronto-centric liberal collective that makes up the core of the Canadian media ideological value-trap.” We think that would make an excellent tag line for Ezra Live.

Stop worrying and love the summits
Andrew Cohen, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, hopes we “use the moment” of the G8 and G20 summits not to complain about the cost, but “to re-think this country abroad” — to “use our prudence, prosperity, history, geography and diversity to our advantage in the world.” This sounds an awful lot like the same old twaddle you’ve heard 150 times before, but Cohen assures us the ideas espoused in Open Canada: A Global Positioning Strategy for a Networked Age, which is a somnambulantly titled report from the Canadian International Council, comprise a good starting point for such a discussion. In other news, Cohen reports that we coould have parlayed the patriotic fervour of the Olympics “into a modest agenda of democratic reform (encouraging youth voting) and physical fitness (addressing childhood obesity),” but that it’s officially too late to do so now … four months later. Pity. “Alexandre Bilodeau votes, so you should too” would’ve been a dynamite campaign.
More on link

 

[Rifleman62]

Picture From: http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2010/06/korytv-application-form-leaked/

"And unlike a lot of Ottawa reporting, the correct answer here isn’t all that nuanced".

 

[xena]

I have to admit that the amount of hand wringing and apoplexy on the left makes this an idea worth pursuing.

Absolutely!  It seems the CBC'ers doth protest a bit too much (IMHO).  Makes me curious about what they're so worried about.

Are they really that worried that the average Canadian can't think for themselves and have to be spoon fed their opinions by (their and only their!) talking head in a box every evening?

 

[Rifleman62]

The following drival is from:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/john-doyle/fox-news-north-and-you-thought-the-fake-lake-was-barking-mad/article1610820/

Fox News North? And you thought the fake lake was barking mad?

Brace yourself for what’s shaping up to be the fake news channel – all fluff, all the time

John Doyle
From Monday's Globe and Mail ,
Published on Monday, Jun. 21, 2010 12:00AM EDT

Last updated on Monday, Jun. 21, 2010 10:49AM EDT

.The news that CBC-TV reporter Krista Erickson was leaving the CBC, possibly to join what’s being called “Fox News North,” caught my attention. Dragged me away from the World Cup.

It struck me as proof positive of the truth in a line delivered by Olivia Newton-John in the season finale of Glee: “Brunettes have no place in showbiz.”

Just speculating here, but if it’s anything like the Fox News channel in the United States, it certainly won’t be a news outlet. It will be entertainment. Fluff. Frivolous opinion delivered as fact. That is, showbiz. You’ve heard of the “fake lake”? Well this could end up being the fake-news channel. Brought to you by the people who probably think the fake lake is an okay thing.

The “blond, attractive and dating a politician” Erickson (as my Ottawa colleague Jane Taber put it recently) would be a perfect fit. Right-wingers are as predictable in their news-babe preferences as they are in their conspiracy theories about the CBC. The only brunette you’re likely to find on the proposed channel, a right-wing act of broadcast onanism, is Ezra Levant. That would be Ezra “Bill O’Reilly of the North” Levant.

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Oh come on, it’ll be hilarious. Bring it on, I say. We're all in need of a good laugh. The barking-mad Fox News Channel is something that most Canadians have only heard about. They could watch it, because it is widely available here, but hardly anybody can be bothered. Except, obviously, for those behind this new outfit – Quebecor Media President Pierre Karl Péladeau and its VP of development Kory Teneycke.

Teneycke used to be “Our Glorious Leader” Harper’s snippity spokesthingamajig. Recently, he’s been a pundit on CBC News Network, doing his best to imitate a Fox News pundit, all drive-by sneer and shaky foundation. And Teneycke, who is actually a personable fella and a good sport when he’s not making barking-mad remarks on TV, is a keener. He is also a regular correspondent with this column. Not long ago he wrote encouraging me to view Power & Politics on CBC NN because, he said, Levant had demolished author Marci McDonald on it. McDonald has, of course, written a book about the right-wing Christian movement in Canada and its influence on the government of Our Glorious Leader. In Teneycke’s note to me, he described McDonald as an “anti-Christian bigot.”

I laughed out loud when I read that. I imagine if McDonald appeared on this Fox News North, the caption on the screen would be “anti-Christian bigot.” And if I ever appeared, the caption would be, “Left-wing, soccer-loving loony.” I’m sure I won’t be on it, though. Instead, I suspect, it will be Erickson swapping bons mots with a giggly Levant, while Rex Murphy, the Red Green of political pundits, waits off-screen to deliver a thundering denunciation of people who oppose catastrophic oil spills.

Oh my dears it’s going to be tremendous fun, if it happens. An entire channel run by, and aimed at, people who believe that political or social dialogue is advanced by name-calling. The people who support Fox News – here and in the U.S. – must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. They'd give soccer hooligans a run for their money. This is an informed opinion.

When I wrote about the looming arrival of Fox News in Canada in 2004, I got thousands (yes, thousands) of e-mails from Fox News devotees in the U.S. One of the first to arrive was this: “You are a [expletive]. Please don't sleep on your side, because your tiny little brain will roll out your ear, you communist [expletive].”

It was bizarre, bracing and very, very funny. I so look forward to the Canadian version. And this may have escaped the brains behind the outfit, but there is one sure way to justify the existence of the CBC. That is, spend 24 hours a day doing what Fox News does – pundits playing journalists in an ongoing soap opera of left-versus-right. It would make CBC, CTV and Global look very, very good. Go for it. Bring it on. Brunettes need not apply, though, unless they’re male, because this is showbiz, after all.


Can't wait till SUN TV to go on air to see all the criticism.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

The following drival is from:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/television/john-doyle/fox-news-north-and-you-thought-the-fake-lake-was-barking-mad/article1610820/

Fox News North? And you thought the fake lake was barking mad?

Brace yourself for what’s shaping up to be the fake news channel – all fluff, all the time

John Doyle
From Monday's Globe and Mail ,
Published on Monday, Jun. 21, 2010 12:00AM EDT

Last updated on Monday, Jun. 21, 2010 10:49AM EDT

.The news that CBC-TV reporter Krista Erickson was leaving the CBC, possibly to join what’s being called “Fox News North,” caught my attention. Dragged me away from the World Cup.

It struck me as proof positive of the truth in a line delivered by Olivia Newton-John in the season finale of Glee: “Brunettes have no place in showbiz.”

Just speculating here, but if it’s anything like the Fox News channel in the United States, it certainly won’t be a news outlet. It will be entertainment. Fluff. Frivolous opinion delivered as fact. That is, showbiz. You’ve heard of the “fake lake”? Well this could end up being the fake-news channel. Brought to you by the people who probably think the fake lake is an okay thing.

The “blond, attractive and dating a politician” Erickson (as my Ottawa colleague Jane Taber put it recently) would be a perfect fit. Right-wingers are as predictable in their news-babe preferences as they are in their conspiracy theories about the CBC. The only brunette you’re likely to find on the proposed channel, a right-wing act of broadcast onanism, is Ezra Levant. That would be Ezra “Bill O’Reilly of the North” Levant.

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Oh come on, it’ll be hilarious. Bring it on, I say. We're all in need of a good laugh. The barking-mad Fox News Channel is something that most Canadians have only heard about. They could watch it, because it is widely available here, but hardly anybody can be bothered. Except, obviously, for those behind this new outfit – Quebecor Media President Pierre Karl Péladeau and its VP of development Kory Teneycke.

Teneycke used to be “Our Glorious Leader” Harper’s snippity spokesthingamajig. Recently, he’s been a pundit on CBC News Network, doing his best to imitate a Fox News pundit, all drive-by sneer and shaky foundation. And Teneycke, who is actually a personable fella and a good sport when he’s not making barking-mad remarks on TV, is a keener. He is also a regular correspondent with this column. Not long ago he wrote encouraging me to view Power & Politics on CBC NN because, he said, Levant had demolished author Marci McDonald on it. McDonald has, of course, written a book about the right-wing Christian movement in Canada and its influence on the government of Our Glorious Leader. In Teneycke’s note to me, he described McDonald as an “anti-Christian bigot.”

I laughed out loud when I read that. I imagine if McDonald appeared on this Fox News North, the caption on the screen would be “anti-Christian bigot.” And if I ever appeared, the caption would be, “Left-wing, soccer-loving loony.” I’m sure I won’t be on it, though. Instead, I suspect, it will be Erickson swapping bons mots with a giggly Levant, while Rex Murphy, the Red Green of political pundits, waits off-screen to deliver a thundering denunciation of people who oppose catastrophic oil spills.

Oh my dears it’s going to be tremendous fun, if it happens. An entire channel run by, and aimed at, people who believe that political or social dialogue is advanced by name-calling. The people who support Fox News – here and in the U.S. – must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. They'd give soccer hooligans a run for their money. This is an informed opinion.

When I wrote about the looming arrival of Fox News in Canada in 2004, I got thousands (yes, thousands) of e-mails from Fox News devotees in the U.S. One of the first to arrive was this: “You are a [expletive]. Please don't sleep on your side, because your tiny little brain will roll out your ear, you communist [expletive].”

It was bizarre, bracing and very, very funny. I so look forward to the Canadian version. And this may have escaped the brains behind the outfit, but there is one sure way to justify the existence of the CBC. That is, spend 24 hours a day doing what Fox News does – pundits playing journalists in an ongoing soap opera of left-versus-right. It would make CBC, CTV and Global look very, very good. Go for it. Bring it on. Brunettes need not apply, though, unless they’re male, because this is showbiz, after all.


Can't wait till SUN TV to go on air to see all the criticism.

A perfect case of the pot calling the kettle black!

 

[Brad Sallows]

I recognize that tone.  Looks to me like Doyle is scared.  A new successful media outlet is going to take away market share from others.

 

[GAP]

I got half way through the article before it dawned on me that this is nothing but namecalling, schoolyard stuff......he's scared....

 

[Rifleman62]

Interested???

http://www.suntvnews.ca/?gclid=CPSi89DhuaICFRRUgwodeDxe5A

 

[DBA]

I got half way through the article before it dawned on me that this is nothing but namecalling, schoolyard stuff......he's scared....

What makes it even more hilarious is this sentence: "An entire channel run by, and aimed at, people who believe that political or social dialogue is advanced by name-calling."

 

[The Bread Guy]

A proposed right-wing, all-news TV network says it's "full steam ahead" despite the sudden resignation of its high-profile and politically connected frontman.

Kory Teneycke, who until last year was the chief spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, stepped down Wednesday as vice-president of development at Quebecor Media, saying he'd become a liability to the launch of SunTV.

A pitched public battle is raging over perceived media bias, alleged political influence, and the terms and conditions of SunTV's as-yet unheard license application.

"Over the summer, this controversy has gotten out of hand,'' Teneycke told an Ottawa news conference. ''It has morphed from one of market differentiation to something more vicious and vitriolic and yes, at times, I have contributed to the debasing of that debate myself.''

Teneycke's resignation came a day after an international advocacy group went to the RCMP and Ottawa police asking for an investigation into fraudulent tinkering with an online petition. The petition demanded the federal TV regulator refuse any special favours for SunTV's licence application.

Avaaz.org, a New York-based advocacy group, asked police to investigate what it says is a single Ottawa-based IP address that submitted multiple false names, including those of Ottawa political reporters — a prank that was first publicly trumpeted by Teneycke himself ....

The intrigue continues - more here.  No more Kory Twitter account, either....

 

[OldSolduer]

Plus Margaret Atwood, a "champion" of free speech is calling for the CRTC to deny a license to this network.  I guess if it was called the "Proletarit Network" it would fly!

BTW, Atwood publicly supported the licensing of Al Jezeera.

 

[a_majoor]

Look who else is trying to derail QMI:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/09/22/george-soros-8-most-despicable-acts-1/print/

George Soros’ 8 Most Despicable Acts (UPDATED AFTER THREAT BY SOROS’ LAWYERS)

Posted By Kathy Shaidle On September 22, 2010 @ 8:00 am In Email,Europe,Fairness Doctrine / Removing Conservatives from the Airwaves,Feature,Funders of the Left,Glenn Beck,Hollywood,Tactics of the Left,Tea Party | 10 Comments

Editor’s Note: This post has been revised since it was first published. Because its author, Kathy Shaidle, is Canadian she is not protected by the same first amendment and libel laws that Americans are. Thus despite the fact that the information she presented has floated around the American blogosphere for years and was published in David Horowitz and Richard Poe’s The Shadow Party, because of where she lives Soros’ goons were able to target her with legal threats. That is the nature of the totalitarian personality we’re dealing with here.

Roger Simon has written:

    …were I a biographer — an occupation for which I have nowhere near the patience or perspicacity — [George] Soros would be my first choice for a subject. He is a paradigmatic figure for our times, a kind of a monster created in the twentieth century, inexorably metastasizing into the twenty-first.

Everyone’s favorite “progressive” billionaire George Soros has been stomping all over us up here in the Not-So-Great White North this week. Even if you’ve followed the Soros saga for years, you’ll be forgiven for being a tiny bit shocked that his generously funded attack dogs are now going so far as trying to shut down a TV channel that hasn’t even aired yet — in a foreign country, no less.

So let’s review “George Soros’ Most Despicable Acts,” and not just in Canada– with help from his extensive entry in Discover The Networks…

As I reported a short time ago, millions of Canadians have been looking forward to the launch of our first ever non-leftist, politically incorrect news channel. Sun TV News, due to hit the airwaves in January 2011, was quickly dubbed “Fox News North” by its legion of hysterical, panic-stricken detractors in the legacy media and their servile minions.

It didn’t take long for something called Avaaz.org to release an embarrassingly error-filled petition to keep Sun TV News from getting a license. As Sun (print) reporter Brian Lilley explained:

    Avaaz operates out of the New York offices of Res Publica, a collective of left-leaning church groups. In addition to Res Publica, Avaaz is backed by MoveOn.org a lobby group that has taken millions of dollars from currency speculator George Soros.

Outraged by this Soros-sponsored interference, tireless champion of freedom (and fellow Sun writer) Ezra Levant slammed Soros in a newspaper column:

    [EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS EXCERPT FROM LEVANT'S COLUMN HAS BEEN REMOVED AFTER KATHY SHAIDLE RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE FROM SOROS' LAWYERS. NO WORD YET ON IF SOROS' LAWYERS HAVE CONTACTED MEDIA MATTERS FOR REPRINTING THE EXCERPT TOO AT THEIR WEBSITE HERE.]

As you can see, Levant relied upon Soros’ own chilling words in a famous 60 Minutes interview, as well as upon research conducted by David Horowitz and even information included in Soros’ authorized biography.

Levant also gleaned information from readily available, public domain sources, such as the unauthorized Soros biography by Robert Slater, which contains troubling revelations, such as this one:

    “I grew up,” Soros told acquaintances later in life, “in a Jewish, anti-Semitic home.” Because he was blue eyed and blond haired — resembling his mother rather than his dark-featured father — George did not look Jewish. In fact, he beamed when other children would tell him, “You don’t look Jewish.” Nothing made him feel happier than to be told he did not have the appearance of a Jew.

Now: as far as I know, neither CBS or Horowitz or Soros’ biographers were ever served libel notices by Soros’ lawyers.

The Sun chain was, however. (Remember: Canada has different libel laws and no First Amendment.)

Today the Sun issued an apology and retraction for Levant’s column.

The Canadian left is crowing: they’ve claimed a scalp and are now energized for the fight to keep a “conservative” newschannel from polluting Canadian airwaves and minds.

Thanks, George!

OK, so all that is pretty hard to top, but it’s also part of Soros’ long ago past. Let’s move up to the George Soros of the present, and the future.

I’m not a fan of infowars.com, but Roger Simon cites them in a report on George Soros’ support of a new group designed to undermine the Tea Party movement:

    Soros and the foundation left have launched a website designed to go after the growing Tea Party movement. Teapartytracker.org will post video interviews and blog entries gathered by folks on the false left who never grow weary of demonstrating their outrage over the very idea of a grassroots political effort overthrowing establishment Democrats and Republicans in the district of corporate criminals.

    Teapartytracker.org will be sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America. Think Progress is a George Soros operation connected to John Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Podesta is Clinton’s former chief of staff. Media Matters for America is the brainchild of a MoveOn consultant and Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Soros is a major supporter of MoveOn.

“I defended Soros from Republican attacks back in 2003,” writes Reason‘s Matt Welch. Last month, however, he revisited some of Soros’ adventures in the intersection between business and politics, citing a 2004 New Yorker profile of the billionaire activist:

    Soros said that he tries to maintain a strict separation between his financial and his philanthropic work. Yet he acknowledged, “There are occasionally symbiotic moments between political and business interests.” He cited one example: an attempt to set up a public-policy think tank in England which had at first looked like a fruitless venture; it had landed him in what promised to be one of the most boring conferences of his life.

    But, chatting with British notables, he caught a serendipitous glimpse of a way to break into the closed world of the British bond market, which he soon did. It became “one of the most rewarding weekends of my life,” he said. “I made many millions.”

Soros isn’t known as “the Man Who Broke the Bank of England” for nothing!

According to David Horowitz and co-author Richard Poe, Soros is:

    the prime mover in the creation of the so-called “Shadow Democratic Party,” or “Shadow Party,” in 2003. This term refers to a nationwide network of more than five-dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats. This network’s activities include fundraising, get-out-the-vote drives, political advertising, opposition research, and media manipulation.

Soros may be a long-time friend and supporter of Hillary Clinton, but her rival, President Obama, has dutifully carried out at least one of Soros’ prescriptions for the economy. Sounding more like a White House czar or a flaky, low level civil servant than an arch-capitalist, Soros declared in 2008:

    “I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets … For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost would be in the 300 to 600 billion dollar range…. I think this is a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence. The U.S. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. I would use the revenues from these auctions to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy.”

No wonder Soros wants to keep a close eye on the Tea Party!

George Soros also praised the idea of nationalizing America’s banks. Glenn Beck has been on top of this story and reminded viewers of this CNN transcript on a June 2010 show:

    FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: Are you satisfied with the job Barack Obama has done?

    GEORGE SOROS, BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR: No, I’m not satisfied. He should have replaced compulsorily replaced the capital that was lost.

    ZAKARIA: Which in effect would have been nationalizing the banks.

    SOROS: This is what they call nationalizing the banks.

Glenn Beck has also talked about Soros’ connection to Obama’s actions following the BP oil spill. Remember Soros’ colleague John Podesta, who we mentioned above? Well, here’s Beck, who reveals that John Podesta has a brother named Tony:

    Tony and John got together, and they started a lobbying company. Now, Tony just happens to be the lobbyist for BP, OK? Now, this is weird, because he’s helping coordinate BP and John is helping coordinate the attack on BP, and they’re brothers in a company they both formed. It’s almost like there might be a conflict of interest here.

    I’m trying really hard not to believe that this whole response to the oil spill is some sort of scripted progressive horror show here. But the more you find out, it’s almost like there might have been a deal before BP — why talk to the CEO? You didn’t need to. John could just call up Tony. Tony could call John. George [Soros] could set up the deal and Obama would execute it.

    Oh, I couldn’t say “execution,” should I? I’m just saying.

    Tony Podesta has more than one client. Are you ready? NBC Universal.

    Wait a minute. Hold it. Who owns NBC Universal? GE.

    Wait a minute, wait a minute — this is starting to make sense. Who owns the smart grid technology that I just told you about in California? GE. Isn’t that weird?

    Back to the Center for American Progress again. This president either has A, a lot of connections in real spooky and dark places. Or it’s the saddest story I’ve ever heard. Because every time we start to look into President Obama, we either find a Marxist, a communist, or somebody a part of Crime, Inc. who is screwing you, the taxpayer, to the wall.


Being a big-time mogul and all, Soros’ c.v. wouldn’t be complete with a foray into the glamorous world of film.

    In 1996 Soros launched the Soros Documentary Fund with a mission to “spur awareness, action and social change.” Over the ensuing decade, this Fund would help finance the production of several hundred documentaries. In 2001, the Fund’s leadership was turned over to Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute with a continuing mission: “to support the production of documentaries on social justice, human rights, civil liberties, and freedom of expression issues around the world.”

    According to journalist Rondi Adamson, most of the documentaries that that the Fund supports “are highly critical of some aspect of American life, capitalism or Western culture,” and generally share Soros’ worldview that “America is a troubling if not sinister influence in the world, that the War on Terror is a fraud and terrorists are misunderstood freedom fighters, and that markets are fundamentally unjust.” Films which have been produced with the aid of Soros’ funding include Soldiers of Conscience (2007), An American Soldier (2008), and My Baghdad Family.

(You’d think a guy as good at making millions as Soros could figure out how to produce a Hollywood anti-war movie that made money for once. Maybe he’ll have to work on the nationalization of Hollywood next.)

In spite of (or is that “because of”?) his first-hand experience of fascist anti-Semitism, Soros labors under the preposterous and potentially fatal illusion that the “resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe” is the fault of… then-President George W. Bush. He told a group of Jewish philanthropists in 2003:

    “There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the [Israeli prime minister Ariel] Sharon administration contribute to that…. I’m critical of those policies…. If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish.”

Soros is right about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. Like many secular, progressive Jews, he is wrong about its cause. It has nothing to do with the usual boogeyman — the mostly mythical gun-toting, Jew-hating “born again” gentile personified by George Bush — and everything to do with the growing Muslim population abroad. Of the sick, twisted manifiestations of Muslim anti-semitism that are on increasing display in Europe, Soros is silent, stubbornly focusing his immeasurable wealth and power on precisely the wrong target.

And so the story comes full circle. As even this brief overview reveals, George Soros, for all his money and power, hasn’t won all the fights he has taken up. George Bush moved back into the Oval Office in 2004, and Hillary Clinton didn’t take his place in 2008. And those anti-war movies Soros bankrolled have bombed.

Perhaps we need to focus our attention on the causes Soros declines to fund — such as the fight to prevent the further growth of Eurabia — as much as those he does.

Article printed from NewsReal Blog: http://www.newsrealblog.com

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[a_majoor]

Sadly, the management of Quebecor seems to have caved. Express your displeasure by suggestign to QMI that you will no longer support thier publications (and by extension their advertisers) if they don't get off the pot and make SUN TV a reality

http://www.quebecor.com/Tools/ContactUs.aspx

For more information or to share your comments, write to us at the following address or use the form below to send us an email.

Quebecor
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http://afewfigs.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/unbelievably-sad/
http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/when-is-a-job-offer-not-a-job-offer-part-2/

When is a Job Offer Not a Job Offer? (Part 2)

November 6, 2010

See Part 1 here

It’s difficult to believe that Canada’s top newspaper chain – which publishes 20 dailies and 150 weeklies – goes around making job offers that aren’t genuine. I mean, my opinion of the media isn’t high, but even I’m not that cynical.

People don’t contact you, meet with you, share their vision of a groundbreaking television station, and invite you to be part of it if they aren’t sincere. What kind of organization does this and then – a few months later – shrugs and mumbles that it was all a practical joke?

Surely you didn’t think we were serious? When a senior executive with our company said we wanted you to challenge David Suzuki how were we to know you’d order copies of his books at your own expense and then actually read them?

When we told you you’d be appearing regularly on television, how were we to know you’d get religion about losing 10 pounds? [TV cameras really do add a few.] When you were cycling your heart out in the summer heat and turning down those ice cream cones, you didn’t think we actually meant any of that job stuff, did you?

But that is what happened. I’ve described how I was approached by Kory Teneycke, the person in charge, offered a job with SunTV, and asked how much money I’d need to join the Quebecor team. That was a Friday.

Over the weekend I thought about how poorly the public has been served by the media’s climate change coverage. I also considered the fact that my personal revenue stream has slowed to an anemic trickle because I’m so busy working on my book.

Television isn’t my natural habitat. But Quebecor was offering me a megaphone to communicate with the public. Billions of dollars are now being spent on climate change programs aimed at preventing hypothetical bad things 100 years from now. Meanwhile malaria claims the lives of thousands of African children every day. It’s important that we talk about these facts.

On the following Monday, I sent Kory an e-mail. I said that, for writing a column once a week plus spending a day a week in the television studio, I’d require $4,200 a month. On Tuesday, May 11th, Kory responded with the following brief message:

    Excellent.  In Montreal yesterday and today for board meetings.  Let’s connect later in the week to discuss further.

In subsequent telephone conversations, Kory confirmed that the dollar amount I’d suggested wasn’t a problem, and said I could expect to begin writing shortly. Personnel changes were in progress at the Toronto Sun (the TV station was being built across the street), but the identity of the editor I’d be working with should soon become clear.

Having been one of the early recruits prior to the launch of the National Post newspaper in 1998, I know that a venture of this magnitude is chaotic in the early stages. SunTV administrative personnel weren’t in place yet, which was why I hadn’t been called in to sign any paperwork. I was cool with that. Why would I have objected? Some of us strive to be team players rather than narcissists.

I had already made plans to spend the entire month of July out-of-town on a book-writing retreat. In June, I grew concerned that I might be interrupted during that retreat by a call from an editor looking for my first column.

I therefore counted the number of words in a few already-published Toronto Sun columns before writing and polishing my debut piece ahead of time. I titled it: David Suzuki is a Drama Queen.

Eager to complete as much of my book as possible before new responsibilities began distracting me, I extended my retreat to August 8th. Immediately afterward, I spent two weeks migrating my blog from its old location to this new one – a task I was thrilled to have accomplished prior to the start of a new chapter in my professional life. I attended an out-of-town wedding and, before one could say Rajendra Pachauri, summer had drawn to a close.

Not having heard from Kory in weeks, in early September I contacted him, observing that it was probably time to get my show on the road. Before he could respond, however, he held a press conference and announced his resignation from Quebecor.

It has since become clear that, when Kory left, so did the bold vision he described to me in that Starbucks early in May. Prior to broadcasting even one hour of content, SunTV has been neutralized.

I’m not the kind of commentator they’re looking for anymore. In a few months, I went from being courted by the person in charge of the television station to someone whose request to meet for coffee was brushed aside. Instead, a news director gave me 10 minutes over the telephone a couple of weeks ago to explain what, exactly, I bring to the table.

A few moments later I was advised that, well, global warming had been a personal interest of Kory’s but things have now changed. The news director told me I could perhaps write for Quebecor occasionally. He didn’t explain what would possess me to imagine that this offer is genuine when the previous one evidently was not.

Quebecor feels it owes me nothing. Not even, I might observe, an apology. I’m terribly sorry about this are five words I have yet to hear from anyone. Since I have no paperwork, Quebecor is choosing to pretend that none of the above really happened. I’ve pointed out that:

    * I was minding my own business
    * that it was a representative of Quebecor who contacted me and offered me a job
    * that my household made financial decisions over the summer based on a good-faith belief that a significant revenue stream would be coming online
    * that financial compensation of some kind is surely in order

Let us just say it looks like I’ll be seeing Quebecor in small claims court. (Stayed tuned.)

But this story is far bigger than me. I’m a footnote in a larger, more important drama. The bold, irreverent, alternative voice that SunTV once promised to deliver to Canadian television viewers has vanished. A left-wing American lobby group, together with novelist Margaret Atwood, slew the unicorn before it even found its feet.

In my next post I’ll elaborate on the series of events that led to Quebecor losing its nerve.

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to be continued…

 

[ModlrMike]

Sadly, the left will crow about their victory, when it is, in truth, a defeat. A singular defeat of free speech and alternative point of view. The fact that it was conceived, managed, and funded from outside our country is even sadder, and an even greater defeat.