JohnyCanuck
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Wed Apr-21-04 09:52 AM
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| 4. Here's a link to the first story that got O'Really's knickers in a knot |
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Who's afraid of the big bad Fox? Certainly not us
By JOHN DOYLE
The other day I read in this newspaper -- an abidingly reliable source -- that some honchos in the cable-TV racket are applying for permission to offer the Fox News Channel in Canada.
Beauty. 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. It's time we saw it for ourselves, and made up our own minds about the phenomenon. We'll find out if this Bill O'Reilly fella is as stupendously pompous and preening as he appears to be in the rare clips we see of Fox News.
Me, I've seen the Fox News Channel on visits to the United States. It is a splendid thing entirely. You have no idea how funny it is. The Fox News Channel is a kind of live theatre of the airwaves, with right-wing pundits playing journalists in an ongoing soap opera. In this soap opera there are good guys and bad guys. The bad guys are the Democratic Party and a dark force that is sometimes known as The Liberal Media Elite and sometimes known as The Loony Left. <snip> More.....
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