It’s time to step out of the echo chamber
By now, you probably know about Nate Silver, the guy behind the New York Times’s Five Thirty Eight blog whose in-depth analysis of opinion polling data produced an electoral map that has correctly...
View ArticleThe journalistic fraud of “exclusive”
I’m going to tell you a secret about journalism. Some of the most thoroughly-researched reports, the ones splashed across the front pages of newspapers and magazines and given top billing in newscasts,...
View ArticleCRTC considering new must-carry applications from Sun News, Vision, ARTV and...
Sun News Network wants to take away your freedom to not pay for Sun News Network. That’s spin, of course, but it happens to be true. Quebecor’s freedom-loving, CBC-criticizing network is one of 22...
View ArticleFact-checking the debate over Sun News
Do you believe in fairness? Do you believe in freedom? Do you believe in Canada? Do you believe in puppies? Both Sun News Network and its (primarily left-wing) opponents are debating the network’s...
View ArticleSun News turns two — will it make it to three?
Today is the second anniversary of the Sun News Network. Canada’s small-c conservative news channel launched on April 18, 2011, days before the royal wedding of the century, a historic federal election...
View ArticleCRTC’s mandatory carriage decisions: Mostly status quo
The CRTC’s long-awaited decision on mandatory carriage came out today. While everyone’s attention was on Sun News Network, which was denied a mandatory carriage order but thrown a bone with a review of...
View ArticleCRTC’s compromise on Sun News is a positive step forward
Sun News Network lives. And you won’t be forced to pay for it through a mandatory tax. On Thursday, the CRTC issued a series of decisions about applications for mandatory distribution on basic cable...
View ArticleCRTC orders Canadian TV distributors to carry Sun News
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has issued an order that all five Canadian national news channels (CBC News Network, RDI, LCN, CTV News Channel and Sun News Network)...
View ArticleDid the CRTC require Sun News be added to analog cable?
We’re now a month away from all (licensed) cable, satellite and IPTV companies in Canada being required to add the Sun News Network to their systems, but one important question remains unanswered: Does...
View ArticleSun News Network 2012 debate translation highlights
This marks the second provincial election campaign in which TVA has decided to separate itself from the consortium that organizes televised leaders’ debates and go it alone with a series of one-on-one...
View ArticleWhy Sun News Network failed
So it’s done. At 5am Eastern Time today, after a repeat of Byline with Brian Lilley and a promo ad featuring Pat Bolland, Sun News Network cut to black, eventually being replaced with notices from...
View ArticleNew Canadian news channel tries to revive the Sun News Network model
While Canadians were focused on a U.S. presidential debate, a trailer was released for a new conservative news channel called The News Forum that purports to “provide viewers with politically balanced...
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