HAHAHAHA that ad is priceless. I'm born'n'raised Albertan, and totally got an Alberta boner watching it, and then lol'd hard.
This Kory Teneycke is the worst kind of bullshitter; a bullshitter who's absolutely convinced that he's not a bullshitter. Gahh, look at him, with his shifty eyes and his "trust me"-blue tie.
I agree that taxpayer dollars going into a failing news network is criminal, but at least CTV's rating's aren't SO bad as they were... and well, CBC is just badly in need of some executive turnover and PR/marketing strategies (aren't most aging Canadian organizations faced with the same problem when taking on US competition?). But private sector-funded cutthroat backlash is going to do the OPPOSITE of helping our failing current events sector. The tax money will go even more wasted just so these SUN douchebags can have their political 15 minutes of fame.
As for accurate, "factual" debate... broadcasting "coffee shop" debate... the problem with that is, opinion will always come from "experts", and experts, problematically, are human beings. Some with stronger voices than others. A conservative-run media is doomed to give a strong voice to the conservative side of whatever's being debated, just as they would claim our current "liberal" all-news channel is slanted toward the liberal speaker. By the end of a debate, the facts are always all confused, usually because an empassioned speaker can say "you're wrong!" louder than anyone else.
When I want to catch the news,I come online. Give me writing, give me the unadulterated opinions of intelligent or at least pseudo-intellectual human beings, and let me decide for myself. Intermittently I watch Global or CBC. Global is the worst kind of news... sensationalist, wanting to get the viewer emotionally tied to the station. Lots of soldier stories, live-on-location warm-fuzzy shit, to provide a reprieve from the world's sorrows. I find CBC to be relatively balanced and straightforward. I don't watch debate shows, I find they're mostly a convoluted waste of time. So I can't comment on their debate programs. But I do know that having an angry-hornet news competitor spitting doom-and-gloom economic and political opinions and further diluding the facts is counterproductive and generally "Un-Canadian".
To Sun-TV's credit, at least by being a cable "option", they're giving us a choice whether or not to subject ourselves to their meager attempts at "democratic" journalism. A final thought; Quebec, politics-wise, sucks. Quebecor sucks. Let them seperate from Canada, let their current events coverage go with them, and they can suffer their edgy, non-PC, debate-heavy news. It'll wind up being a lot of hot air and "TABERNAC!".
If the conservative base could separate themselves from their reliigious backing, and make it a strictly economic issue, politics would move more smoothly. The problem with bringing in social issues that are "religiously determined" is another point where problems can be shouted louder and with more passion. When common sense is thrown out the window for passion and factually void reasoning, we all lose.
If the conservative base could separate themselves from their reliigious backing, and make it a strictly economic issue, politics would move more smoothly. The problem with bringing in social issues that are "religiously determined" is another point where problems can be shouted louder and with more passion. When common sense is thrown out the window for passion and factually void reasoning, we all lose.
I'm gonna QFT a QFT. I'm independent, but I lean a little right. But the religious side of things on the right ruins it for me. And I've always said obviously politics and religion are two things that people are very passionate about. When you mix the two of them together, that can be a powerful and scary thing (eg Iran)
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LOL check out this cheesy ad. Fack, looks like it's aimed at albertans.
This Kory Teneycke is the worst kind of bullshitter; a bullshitter who's absolutely convinced that he's not a bullshitter. Gahh, look at him, with his shifty eyes and his "trust me"-blue tie.
I agree that taxpayer dollars going into a failing news network is criminal, but at least CTV's rating's aren't SO bad as they were... and well, CBC is just badly in need of some executive turnover and PR/marketing strategies (aren't most aging Canadian organizations faced with the same problem when taking on US competition?). But private sector-funded cutthroat backlash is going to do the OPPOSITE of helping our failing current events sector. The tax money will go even more wasted just so these SUN douchebags can have their political 15 minutes of fame.
As for accurate, "factual" debate... broadcasting "coffee shop" debate... the problem with that is, opinion will always come from "experts", and experts, problematically, are human beings. Some with stronger voices than others. A conservative-run media is doomed to give a strong voice to the conservative side of whatever's being debated, just as they would claim our current "liberal" all-news channel is slanted toward the liberal speaker. By the end of a debate, the facts are always all confused, usually because an empassioned speaker can say "you're wrong!" louder than anyone else.
When I want to catch the news, I come online. Give me writing, give me the unadulterated opinions of intelligent or at least pseudo-intellectual human beings, and let me decide for myself. Intermittently I watch Global or CBC. Global is the worst kind of news... sensationalist, wanting to get the viewer emotionally tied to the station. Lots of soldier stories, live-on-location warm-fuzzy shit, to provide a reprieve from the world's sorrows. I find CBC to be relatively balanced and straightforward. I don't watch debate shows, I find they're mostly a convoluted waste of time. So I can't comment on their debate programs. But I do know that having an angry-hornet news competitor spitting doom-and-gloom economic and political opinions and further diluding the facts is counterproductive and generally "Un-Canadian".
To Sun-TV's credit, at least by being a cable "option", they're giving us a choice whether or not to subject ourselves to their meager attempts at "democratic" journalism. A final thought; Quebec, politics-wise, sucks. Quebecor sucks. Let them seperate from Canada, let their current events coverage go with them, and they can suffer their edgy, non-PC, debate-heavy news. It'll wind up being a lot of hot air and "TABERNAC!".
If the conservative base could separate themselves from their reliigious backing, and make it a strictly economic issue, politics would move more smoothly. The problem with bringing in social issues that are "religiously determined" is another point where problems can be shouted louder and with more passion. When common sense is thrown out the window for passion and factually void reasoning, we all lose.
If the conservative base could separate themselves from their reliigious backing, and make it a strictly economic issue, politics would move more smoothly. The problem with bringing in social issues that are "religiously determined" is another point where problems can be shouted louder and with more passion. When common sense is thrown out the window for passion and factually void reasoning, we all lose.
I'm gonna QFT a QFT.
I'm independent, but I lean a little right. But the religious side of things on the right ruins it for me. And I've always said obviously politics and religion are two things that people are very passionate about. When you mix the two of them together, that can be a powerful and scary thing (eg Iran)