Canadians want Fox News Now!

It seems I'm the most foolish of all. I should be more careful in my choice of friends.

blatham:

I apologize for the utter stupidity and narrowmindedness of the neoconservative rightwing nutjobs who feel it important to project their self-righteous fascist ideologies on to our good neighbors up North.

The idea of any of these boneheads gloating over the incursion of American corporate media for the sole purpose of brainwashing the masses up North is nothing short of sickening.

But it is to be expected, as I'm sure you well know.

Thank god I'm nowhere near these individuals.

The Canadians are just as free as Americans to decide for themselves what they wish to watch or not watch. I really do not think anyone should be censoring or defining what Canadians can or cannot watch. Last I checked, they were adults.

The conservative press is self-consciously conservative and self-consciously part of the team. The liberal press is much larger, but at the same time it sees itself as the establishment press. So it's conflicted. Sometimes it thinks it needs to be critical of both sides."

blatham - It appears that insulting me somehow eases your insecurities. If it makes you feel better, I sincerely doubt Fox will make that much of a difference up there (although it seems one or two of our northern neighbors are receptive to it).

Perhaps your anger would be better directed at Judi McLeod or Rachel Marsden (her email is in the article).

My Dad (a doc) has several research colleagues in Canada. I could tell you what he's hearing from them, but of course, that would be anecdotal (therefore irrelevant) and might further increase your discomfort. We don't want that

The vociferous, increasingly intolerant conservative commentator Ann Coulter said recently on Fox News: "It's always the worst Americans who end up going (to Canada) -- the Tories after the Revolutionary War, the Vietnam draft dodgers after Vietnam. And now, after this election, you have the blue-state people moving up there. They better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent."
To many people planning their move, such comments are merely another reason to get packing. As soon as they can.

Fox Cable in the US is about as close to a state TV as possible. The "heads" are all suck-ups to the administration and then they have the cojones to criticize the "liberal controlled media"

I think satellite radio will have a brief run of relative programming freedom. Then someone , sometime, will find a way to direct the POV and the moral tones of the new kid on the block

JW:-

"It appears","somehow", does not add up to proof of anybody's "insecurities".

And "sincerely doubt" doesn't make all that much difference to how much difference Fox makes anywhere.

And while we are at the knitting where does "seems" come from?

One would like to think that someone with a "doc" for a Dad and one who has "research colleagues" as well would eschew such slippery words and phrases.Does having such a Dad add credence in that zone of flannel.It doesn't here.

And what is so upsetting about increasing blatham's discomfort even assuming that we could do.Anyway-I don't know that blatham did insult you.
I read the post (well-some of it) and I wouldn't say that he is all that far off the mark.Two sentences of that sort of thing and I usually turn my attention to the next thing more in hope than expectation because an editor who allows that is capable of continuing in the same line of work.If you can't see why I suggest you focus on words like "droves" and
"insightful" and "dramatic improvement" and "more professional" and "left wing slanted" and "balance deprived" and "poured in" and "affirm".Who sent in the letters?The 1st para is meaningless.Hence there isn't much point in reading on.

spendius.