Booga Booga!

The Canadian Charger detects that vast-but-occluded-right-wing-agenda in the desire to beam a version of FOX News--which the CC "wryly" calls "Harpervision"--into Canada:

Is right-wing extremism coming to a television near you? In Canada the conspiracy is in the works.

Sun TV is committed to starting up an all-“news” cable channel on January 1. Heading up this effort is Kory Teneycke, former director of communications–make that “propaganda”–for Stephen Harper and one-time advisor to Mike Harris and Preston Manning.

The proposed channel, which has been called “Fox News North,” reflects an electronic extension of A.J. Liebling’s famous comment that freedom of the press is granted only to those who own one—in this case, Pierre Karl Péladeau, President and CEO of Quebecor Inc., Quebecor Media Inc., and Sun Media Corp. His Journal de Montréal has had its journalists locked out for over a year, and he operates with scab labour.

Liebling aside, how could one object to Péladeau’s desire to open a right-wing all-”news” channel?

After all, Conrad Black started up the National Post to give Canadians an alternative, more reactionary, extreme right-wing view of the world, and it has done nothing but bleed red ink. One could well expect the same fate for Fox News North...

Liebling aside, has the editorialist read the NP lately? It's about as "reactionary" and "extreme-right wing" as, well, as the Harper Tories. Which is to say, all in all pretty centrist, if as yet insufficiently anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian enough for the CC's radical cadre of 'Slamo-lefties.